On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:48:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 06:44:36PM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > > --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c > > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c > > @@ -1219,6 +1219,8 @@ void do_user_addr_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, > > struct mm_struct *mm; > > vm_fault_t fault; > > unsigned int flags = FAULT_FLAG_DEFAULT; > > + struct vm_area_struct pvma; > > That's 200 bytes on-stack... I suppose that's just about acceptible, but > perhaps we need a comment in struct vm_area_struct to make people aware > this things lives on-stack and size really is an issue now.
Michel's gone off and done his own thing here. The rest of us (Laurent, Liam & I) are working on top of the maple tree which shrinks vm_area_struct by five pointers, so just 160 bytes. Also, our approach doesn't involve copying VMAs in order to handle a fault.
