From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f71.google.com (mail-pg0-f71.google.com [74.125.83.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF2BD6B0390 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:03:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pg0-f71.google.com with SMTP id b10so29782988pgn.8 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com. [148.163.156.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 80si733240pga.172.2017.03.29.20.03.16 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098404.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.20/8.16.0.20) with SMTP id v2U2sTji058668 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:03:16 -0400 Received: from e28smtp09.in.ibm.com (e28smtp09.in.ibm.com [125.16.236.9]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 29gfrj8kp3-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:03:15 -0400 Received: from localhost by e28smtp09.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:33:13 +0530 Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (d28av01.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.63]) by d28relay01.in.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id v2U33COE11206728 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:33:12 +0530 Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d28av01.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id v2U33BMm019177 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:33:11 +0530 Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 16/17] mm: Let arch choose the initial value of task size References: <1490153823-29241-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1490153823-29241-17-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> From: Anshuman Khandual Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:33:11 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1490153823-29241-17-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <77aeea83-0334-45b7-3f40-4a1d8619d191@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, "Kirill A . Shutemov" , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton On 03/22/2017 09:07 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > As we start supporting larger address space (>128TB), we want to give > architecture a control on max task size of an application which is different > from the TASK_SIZE. For ex: ppc64 needs to track the base page size of a segment > and it is copied from mm_context_t to PACA on each context switch. If we know that > application has not used an address range above 128TB we only need to copy > details about 128TB range to PACA. This will help in improving context switch > performance by avoiding larger copy operation. > > Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org > Cc: Andrew Morton > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V > --- > fs/exec.c | 10 +++++++++- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c > index 65145a3df065..5550a56d03c3 100644 > --- a/fs/exec.c > +++ b/fs/exec.c > @@ -1308,6 +1308,14 @@ void would_dump(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct file *file) > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(would_dump); > > +#ifndef arch_init_task_size > +static inline void arch_init_task_size(void) > +{ > + current->mm->task_size = TASK_SIZE; > +} > +#define arch_init_task_size arch_init_task_size > +#endif Why not a proper CONFIG_ARCH_DEFINED_TASK_SIZE kind of option for this ? Also are there no assumptions about task current->mm->size being TASK_SIZE in other places which might get broken ? -- 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