On Wed 20-03-19 08:27:39, Yang Shi wrote:
> MPOL_MF_LAZY was added by commit b24f53a0bea3 ("mm: mempolicy: Add
> MPOL_MF_LAZY"), then it was disabled by commit a720094ded8c ("mm:
> mempolicy: Hide MPOL_NOOP and MPOL_MF_LAZY from userspace for now")
> right away in 2012. So, it is never ever exported to userspace.
>
> And, it looks nobody is interested in revisiting it since it was
> disabled 7 years ago. So, it sounds pointless to still keep it around.
The above changelog owes us a lot of explanation about why this is
safe and backward compatible. I am also not sure you can change
MPOL_MF_INTERNAL because somebody still might use the flag from
userspace and we want to guarantee it will have the exact same semantic.
> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
> ---
> Hi folks,
> I'm not sure if you still would like to revisit it later. And, I may be
> not the first one to try to remvoe it. IMHO, it sounds pointless to still
> keep it around if nobody is interested in it.
>
> include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h | 3 +--
> mm/mempolicy.c | 13 -------------
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
> index 3354774..eb52a7a 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
> @@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ enum {
> #define MPOL_MF_MOVE (1<<1) /* Move pages owned by this process to conform
> to policy */
> #define MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL (1<<2) /* Move every page to conform to policy
> */
> -#define MPOL_MF_LAZY (1<<3) /* Modifies '_MOVE: lazy migrate on fault */
> -#define MPOL_MF_INTERNAL (1<<4) /* Internal flags start here */
> +#define MPOL_MF_INTERNAL (1<<3) /* Internal flags start here */
>
> #define MPOL_MF_VALID (MPOL_MF_STRICT | \
> MPOL_MF_MOVE | \
> diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
> index af171cc..67886f4 100644
> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> @@ -593,15 +593,6 @@ static int queue_pages_test_walk(unsigned long start,
> unsigned long end,
>
> qp->prev = vma;
>
> - if (flags & MPOL_MF_LAZY) {
> - /* Similar to task_numa_work, skip inaccessible VMAs */
> - if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) &&
> - (vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE)) &&
> - !(vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP))
> - change_prot_numa(vma, start, endvma);
> - return 1;
> - }
> -
> /* queue pages from current vma */
> if (flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL))
> return 0;
> @@ -1181,9 +1172,6 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start, unsigned long
> len,
> if (IS_ERR(new))
> return PTR_ERR(new);
>
> - if (flags & MPOL_MF_LAZY)
> - new->flags |= MPOL_F_MOF;
> -
> /*
> * If we are using the default policy then operation
> * on discontinuous address spaces is okay after all
> @@ -1226,7 +1214,6 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start, unsigned long
> len,
> int nr_failed = 0;
>
> if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) {
> - WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & MPOL_MF_LAZY);
> nr_failed = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page, NULL,
> start, MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_MEMPOLICY_MBIND);
> if (nr_failed)
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
