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, 6 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
index 1e9a9e016237..1dbf7211666e 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c
@@ -218,14 +218,10 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const unsigned long addr0,
 unsigned long get_fb_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long orig_addr, unsigned long len, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags)
 {
 	unsigned long align_goal, addr = -ENOMEM;
-	unsigned long (*get_area)(struct file *, unsigned long,
-				  unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
-
-	get_area = current->mm->get_unmapped_area;
 
 	if (flags & MAP_FIXED) {
 		/* Ok, don't mess with it. */
-		return get_area(NULL, orig_addr, len, pgoff, flags);
+		return mm_get_unmapped_area(current->mm, NULL, orig_addr, len, pgoff, flags);
 	}
 	flags &= ~MAP_SHARED;
 
@@ -238,7 +234,8 @@ unsigned long get_fb_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long orig_addr, u
 		align_goal = (64UL * 1024);
 
 	do {
-		addr = get_area(NULL, orig_addr, len + (align_goal - PAGE_SIZE), pgoff, flags);
+		addr = mm_get_unmapped_area(current->mm, NULL, orig_addr,
+					    len + (align_goal - PAGE_SIZE), pgoff, flags);
 		if (!(addr & ~PAGE_MASK)) {
 			addr = (addr + (align_goal - 1UL)) & ~(align_goal - 1UL);
 			break;
@@ -256,7 +253,7 @@ unsigned long get_fb_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long orig_addr, u
 	 * be obtained.
 	 */
 	if (addr & ~PAGE_MASK)
-		addr = get_area(NULL, orig_addr, len, pgoff, flags);
+		addr = mm_get_unmapped_area(current->mm, NULL, orig_addr, len, pgoff, flags);
 
 	return addr;
 }
@@ -292,7 +289,7 @@ void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm, struct rlimit *rlim_stack)
 	    gap == RLIM_INFINITY ||
 	    sysctl_legacy_va_layout) {
 		mm->mmap_base = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE + random_factor;
-		mm->get_unmapped_area = arch_get_unmapped_area;
+		clear_bit(MMF_TOPDOWN, &mm->flags);
 	} else {
 		/* We know it's 32-bit */
 		unsigned long task_size = STACK_TOP32;
@@ -303,7 +300,7 @@ void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm, struct rlimit *rlim_stack)
 			gap = (task_size / 6 * 5);
 
 		mm->mmap_base = PAGE_ALIGN(task_size - gap - random_factor);
-		mm->get_unmapped_area = arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown;
+		set_bit(MMF_TOPDOWN, &mm->flags);
 	}
 }