Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: Fix RLIMIT_MEMLOCK

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Thu May 30 2013 - 17:01:38 EST


> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
> index a841123..f8f47dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
> @@ -137,17 +137,22 @@ struct ib_umem *ib_umem_get (struct ib_ucontext *context, unsigned long addr,
>
> down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
>
> - locked = npages + current->mm->pinned_vm;
> + locked = npages + mm_locked_pages(current->mm);
> lock_limit = rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>
> if ((locked > lock_limit) && !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> - goto out;
> + goto err;
> }
>
> cur_base = addr & PAGE_MASK;
> + umem->start_addr = cur_base;
> + umem->end_addr = cur_base + npages;
> +
> + ret = mm_mpin(umem->start_addr, umem->end_addr);
> + if (ret)
> + goto err;

I believe RLIMIT_MEMLOCK should be checked within mm_mpin().


> +static inline unsigned long mm_locked_pages(struct mm_struct *mm)
> +{
> + return mm->pinned_vm + mm->locked_vm;
> +}

This is acceptable. but if we create mm_locked_pages(), /proc should
also use this.
Otherwise pinning operation magically decrease VmLck field in
/proc/pid/status and people
get a confusion.



> @@ -310,9 +309,49 @@ static int mlock_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev,
> * Keep track of amount of locked VM.
> */
> nr_pages = (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> - if (!lock)
> - nr_pages = -nr_pages;
> - mm->locked_vm += nr_pages;
> +
> + /*
> + * We should only account pages once, if VM_PINNED is set pages are
> + * accounted in mm_struct::pinned_vm, otherwise if VM_LOCKED is set,
> + * we'll account them in mm_struct::locked_vm.
> + *
> + * PL := vma->vm_flags
> + * PL' := newflags
> + * PLd := {pinned,locked}_vm delta
> + *
> + * PL->PL' PLd
> + * -----------
> + * 00 01 0+
> + * 00 10 +0
> + * 01 11 +-
> + * 01 00 0-
> + * 10 00 -0
> + * 10 11 00
> + * 11 01 -+
> + * 11 10 00
> + */

This comment is too cryptic. :-)
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