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    hugetlb: reserve huge pages for reliable MAP_PRIVATE hugetlbfs mappings until fork() · a1e78772
    Mel Gorman authored
    
    
    This patch reserves huge pages at mmap() time for MAP_PRIVATE mappings in
    a similar manner to the reservations taken for MAP_SHARED mappings.  The
    reserve count is accounted both globally and on a per-VMA basis for
    private mappings.  This guarantees that a process that successfully calls
    mmap() will successfully fault all pages in the future unless fork() is
    called.
    
    The characteristics of private mappings of hugetlbfs files behaviour after
    this patch are;
    
    1. The process calling mmap() is guaranteed to succeed all future faults until
       it forks().
    2. On fork(), the parent may die due to SIGKILL on writes to the private
       mapping if enough pages are not available for the COW. For reasonably
       reliable behaviour in the face of a small huge page pool, children of
       hugepage-aware processes should not reference the mappings; such as
       might occur when fork()ing to exec().
    3. On fork(), the child VMAs inherit no reserves. Reads on pages already
       faulted by the parent will succeed. Successful writes will depend on enough
       huge pages being free in the pool.
    4. Quotas of the hugetlbfs mount are checked at reserve time for the mapper
       and at fault time otherwise.
    
    Before this patch, all reads or writes in the child potentially needs page
    allocations that can later lead to the death of the parent.  This applies
    to reads and writes of uninstantiated pages as well as COW.  After the
    patch it is only a write to an instantiated page that causes problems.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Acked-by: default avatarAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
    Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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