ksm: fix oom deadlock
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1 #ifndef __LINUX_KSM_H
2 #define __LINUX_KSM_H
3 /*
4 * Memory merging support.
6 * This code enables dynamic sharing of identical pages found in different
7 * memory areas, even if they are not shared by fork().
8 */
10 #include <linux/bitops.h>
11 #include <linux/mm.h>
12 #include <linux/sched.h>
13 #include <linux/vmstat.h>
15 struct mmu_gather;
17 #ifdef CONFIG_KSM
18 int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
19 unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags);
20 int __ksm_enter(struct mm_struct *mm);
21 void __ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm,
22 struct mmu_gather **tlbp, unsigned long end);
24 static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
26 if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &oldmm->flags))
27 return __ksm_enter(mm);
28 return 0;
32 * For KSM to handle OOM without deadlock when it's breaking COW in a
33 * likely victim of the OOM killer, exit_mmap() has to serialize with
34 * ksm_exit() after freeing mm's pages but before freeing its page tables.
35 * That leaves a window in which KSM might refault pages which have just
36 * been finally unmapped: guard against that with ksm_test_exit(), and
37 * use it after getting mmap_sem in ksm.c, to check if mm is exiting.
39 static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
41 return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;
44 static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm,
45 struct mmu_gather **tlbp, unsigned long end)
47 if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags))
48 __ksm_exit(mm, tlbp, end);
52 * A KSM page is one of those write-protected "shared pages" or "merged pages"
53 * which KSM maps into multiple mms, wherever identical anonymous page content
54 * is found in VM_MERGEABLE vmas. It's a PageAnon page, with NULL anon_vma.
56 static inline int PageKsm(struct page *page)
58 return ((unsigned long)page->mapping == PAGE_MAPPING_ANON);
62 * But we have to avoid the checking which page_add_anon_rmap() performs.
64 static inline void page_add_ksm_rmap(struct page *page)
66 if (atomic_inc_and_test(&page->_mapcount)) {
67 page->mapping = (void *) PAGE_MAPPING_ANON;
68 __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_ANON_PAGES);
71 #else /* !CONFIG_KSM */
73 static inline int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
74 unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags)
76 return 0;
79 static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
81 return 0;
84 static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
86 return 0;
89 static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm,
90 struct mmu_gather **tlbp, unsigned long end)
94 static inline int PageKsm(struct page *page)
96 return 0;
99 /* No stub required for page_add_ksm_rmap(page) */
100 #endif /* !CONFIG_KSM */
102 #endif