Brian Geffon 1d695ccfc6 FROMLIST: mm: Extend MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to non-anonymous mappings
Currently MREMAP_DONTUNMAP only accepts private anonymous mappings.
This restriction was placed initially for simplicity and not because
there exists a technical reason to do so.

This change will widen the support to include any mappings which are not
VM_DONTEXPAND or VM_PFNMAP. The primary use case is to support
MREMAP_DONTUNMAP on mappings which may have been created from a memfd.
This change will result in mremap(MREMAP_DONTUNMAP) returning -EINVAL
if VM_DONTEXPAND or VM_PFNMAP mappings are specified.

Lokesh Gidra who works on the Android JVM, provided an explanation of how
such a feature will improve Android JVM garbage collection:
"Android is developing a new garbage collector (GC), based on userfaultfd.
The garbage collector will use userfaultfd (uffd) on the java heap during
compaction. On accessing any uncompacted page, the application threads will
find it missing, at which point the thread will create the compacted page
and then use UFFDIO_COPY ioctl to get it mapped and then resume execution.
Before starting this compaction, in a stop-the-world pause the heap will be
mremap(MREMAP_DONTUNMAP) so that the java heap is ready to receive
UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT events after resuming execution.

To speedup mremap operations, pagetable movement was optimized by moving
PUD entries instead of PTE entries [1]. It was necessary as mremap of even
modest sized memory ranges also took several milliseconds, and stopping the
application for that long isn't acceptable in response-time sensitive
cases.

With UFFDIO_CONTINUE feature [2], it will be even more efficient to
implement this GC, particularly the 'non-moveable' portions of the heap.
It will also help in reducing the need to copy (UFFDIO_COPY) the pages.
However, for this to work, the java heap has to be on a 'shared' vma.
Currently MREMAP_DONTUNMAP only supports private anonymous mappings, this
patch will enable using UFFDIO_CONTINUE for the new userfaultfd-based heap
compaction."

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201215030730.NC3CU98e4%25akpm@linux-foundation.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210302000133.272579-1-axelrasmussen@google.com/

Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1401224/
Bug: 160737021
Bug: 169683130
Change-Id: Ic4f023dff404d7b0e35adbe92c7a12536aa0f70d
2021-03-25 22:44:44 +00:00
2021-03-07 12:33:33 +01:00
2021-03-07 12:53:30 +01:00

How do I submit patches to Android Common Kernels

  1. BEST: Make all of your changes to upstream Linux. If appropriate, backport to the stable releases. These patches will be merged automatically in the corresponding common kernels. If the patch is already in upstream Linux, post a backport of the patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.

    • Do not send patches upstream that contain only symbol exports. To be considered for upstream Linux, additions of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() require an in-tree modular driver that uses the symbol -- so include the new driver or changes to an existing driver in the same patchset as the export.
    • When sending patches upstream, the commit message must contain a clear case for why the patch is needed and beneficial to the community. Enabling out-of-tree drivers or functionality is not not a persuasive case.
  2. LESS GOOD: Develop your patches out-of-tree (from an upstream Linux point-of-view). Unless these are fixing an Android-specific bug, these are very unlikely to be accepted unless they have been coordinated with kernel-team@android.com. If you want to proceed, post a patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.

Common Kernel patch requirements

  • All patches must conform to the Linux kernel coding standards and pass script/checkpatch.pl
  • Patches shall not break gki_defconfig or allmodconfig builds for arm, arm64, x86, x86_64 architectures (see https://source.android.com/setup/build/building-kernels)
  • If the patch is not merged from an upstream branch, the subject must be tagged with the type of patch: UPSTREAM:, BACKPORT:, FROMGIT:, FROMLIST:, or ANDROID:.
  • All patches must have a Change-Id: tag (see https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-changeid.html)
  • If an Android bug has been assigned, there must be a Bug: tag.
  • All patches must have a Signed-off-by: tag by the author and the submitter

Additional requirements are listed below based on patch type

Requirements for backports from mainline Linux: UPSTREAM:, BACKPORT:

  • If the patch is a cherry-pick from Linux mainline with no changes at all
    • tag the patch subject with UPSTREAM:.
    • add upstream commit information with a (cherry picked from commit ...) line
    • Example:
      • if the upstream commit message is
        important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
  • then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
        UPSTREAM: important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>

        Bug: 135791357
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
        (cherry picked from commit c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
        Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
  • If the patch requires any changes from the upstream version, tag the patch with BACKPORT: instead of UPSTREAM:.
    • use the same tags as UPSTREAM:
    • add comments about the changes under the (cherry picked from commit ...) line
    • Example:
        BACKPORT: important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>

        Bug: 135791357
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
        (cherry picked from commit c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
        [joe: Resolved minor conflict in drivers/foo/bar.c ]
        Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>

Requirements for other backports: FROMGIT:, FROMLIST:,

  • If the patch has been merged into an upstream maintainer tree, but has not yet been merged into Linux mainline
    • tag the patch subject with FROMGIT:
    • add info on where the patch came from as (cherry picked from commit <sha1> <repo> <branch>). This must be a stable maintainer branch (not rebased, so don't use linux-next for example).
    • if changes were required, use BACKPORT: FROMGIT:
    • Example:
      • if the commit message in the maintainer tree is
        important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
  • then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
        FROMGIT: important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>

        Bug: 135791357
        (cherry picked from commit 878a2fd9de10b03d11d2f622250285c7e63deace
         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/foo/bar.git test-branch)
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
        Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
  • If the patch has been submitted to LKML, but not accepted into any maintainer tree
    • tag the patch subject with FROMLIST:
    • add a Link: tag with a link to the submittal on lore.kernel.org
    • add a Bug: tag with the Android bug (required for patches not accepted into a maintainer tree)
    • if changes were required, use BACKPORT: FROMLIST:
    • Example:
        FROMLIST: important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>

        Bug: 135791357
        Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190619171517.GA17557@someone.com/
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
        Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>

Requirements for Android-specific patches: ANDROID:

  • If the patch is fixing a bug to Android-specific code
    • tag the patch subject with ANDROID:
    • add a Fixes: tag that cites the patch with the bug
    • Example:
        ANDROID: fix android-specific bug in foobar.c

        This is the detailed description of the important fix

        Fixes: 1234abcd2468 ("foobar: add cool feature")
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
        Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
  • If the patch is a new feature
    • tag the patch subject with ANDROID:
    • add a Bug: tag with the Android bug (required for android-specific features)
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