mm: switch mm->get_unmapped_area() to a flag

The mm_struct contains a function pointer *get_unmapped_area(), which is
set to either arch_get_unmapped_area() or arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown()
during the initialization of the mm.

Since the function pointer only ever points to two functions that are
named the same across all arch's, a function pointer is not really
required.  In addition future changes will want to add versions of the
functions that take additional arguments.  So to save a pointers worth of
bytes in mm_struct, and prevent adding additional function pointers to
mm_struct in future changes, remove it and keep the information about
which get_unmapped_area() to use in a flag.

Add the new flag to MMF_INIT_MASK so it doesn't get clobbered on fork by
mmf_init_flags().  Most MM flags get clobbered on fork.  In the
pre-existing behavior mm->get_unmapped_area() would get copied to the new
mm in dup_mm(), so not clobbering the flag preserves the existing behavior
around inheriting the topdown-ness.

Introduce a helper, mm_get_unmapped_area(), to easily convert code that
refers to the old function pointer to instead select and call either
arch_get_unmapped_area() or arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() based on the
flag.  Then drop the mm->get_unmapped_area() function pointer.  Leave the
get_unmapped_area() pointer in struct file_operations alone.  The main
purpose of this change is to reorganize in preparation for future changes,
but it also converts the calls of mm->get_unmapped_area() from indirect
branches into a direct ones.

The stress-ng bigheap benchmark calls realloc a lot, which calls through
get_unmapped_area() in the kernel.  On x86, the change yielded a ~1%
improvement there on a retpoline config.

In testing a few x86 configs, removing the pointer unfortunately didn't
result in any actual size reductions in the compiled layout of mm_struct. 
But depending on compiler or arch alignment requirements, the change could
shrink the size of mm_struct.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <[email protected]>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Guo Ren <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c b/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c
index b14fc0887654..6b2e4436ad4a 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c
@@ -185,10 +185,10 @@ void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm, struct rlimit *rlim_stack)
 	 */
 	if (mmap_is_legacy(rlim_stack)) {
 		mm->mmap_base = mmap_base_legacy(random_factor);
-		mm->get_unmapped_area = arch_get_unmapped_area;
+		clear_bit(MMF_TOPDOWN, &mm->flags);
 	} else {
 		mm->mmap_base = mmap_base(random_factor, rlim_stack);
-		mm->get_unmapped_area = arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown;
+		set_bit(MMF_TOPDOWN, &mm->flags);
 	}
 }