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The systemd plumbers expressed a wish that tmpfs support preallocation. Cong Wang wrote a patch, but several kernel guys expressed scepticism: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/18/137 Christoph Hellwig: What for exactly? Please explain why preallocating on tmpfs would make any sense. Kay Sievers: To be able to safely use mmap(), regarding SIGBUS, on files on the /dev/shm filesystem. The glibc fallback loop for -ENOSYS [or -EOPNOTSUPP] on fallocate is just ugly. Hugh Dickins: If tmpfs is going to support fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE), it would seem perverse to permit the deallocation but fail the allocation. Christoph Hellwig: Agreed. Now that we do have shmem_fallocate() for hole-punching, plumb in basic support for preallocation mode too. It's fairly straightforward (though quite a few details needed attention), except for when it fails part way through. What a pity that fallocate(2) was not specified to return the length allocated, permitting short fallocations! As it is, when it fails part way through, we ought to free what has just been allocated by this system call; but must be very sure not to free any allocated earlier, or any allocated by racing accesses (not all excluded by i_mutex). But we cannot distinguish them: so in this patch simply leak allocations on partial failure (they will be freed later if the file is removed). An attractive alternative approach would have been for fallocate() not to allocate pages at all, but note reservations by entries in the radix-tree. But that would give less assurance, and, critically, would be hard to fit with mem cgroups (who owns the reservations?): allocating pages lets fallocate() behave in just the same way as write(). Change-Id: I48e9a02d087213ffd74ffd65f2f29d71bcf07eab Based-on-patch-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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| bootmem.c | ||
| bounce.c | ||
| cleancache.c | ||
| compaction.c | ||
| debug-pagealloc.c | ||
| dmapool.c | ||
| fadvise.c | ||
| failslab.c | ||
| filemap.c | ||
| filemap_xip.c | ||
| fremap.c | ||
| highmem.c | ||
| huge_memory.c | ||
| hugetlb.c | ||
| hwpoison-inject.c | ||
| init-mm.c | ||
| internal.h | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.debug | ||
| kmemcheck.c | ||
| kmemleak-test.c | ||
| kmemleak.c | ||
| ksm.c | ||
| maccess.c | ||
| madvise.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| memblock.c | ||
| memcontrol.c | ||
| memory-failure.c | ||
| memory.c | ||
| memory_hotplug.c | ||
| mempolicy.c | ||
| mempool.c | ||
| migrate.c | ||
| mincore.c | ||
| mlock.c | ||
| mm_init.c | ||
| mmap.c | ||
| mmu_context.c | ||
| mmu_notifier.c | ||
| mmzone.c | ||
| mprotect.c | ||
| mremap.c | ||
| msync.c | ||
| nobootmem.c | ||
| nommu.c | ||
| oom_kill.c | ||
| page-writeback.c | ||
| page_alloc.c | ||
| page_cgroup.c | ||
| page_io.c | ||
| page_isolation.c | ||
| pagewalk.c | ||
| percpu-km.c | ||
| percpu-vm.c | ||
| percpu.c | ||
| pgtable-generic.c | ||
| prio_tree.c | ||
| process_vm_access.c | ||
| quicklist.c | ||
| readahead.c | ||
| rmap.c | ||
| shmem.c | ||
| slab.c | ||
| slob.c | ||
| slub.c | ||
| sparse-vmemmap.c | ||
| sparse.c | ||
| swap.c | ||
| swap_state.c | ||
| swapfile.c | ||
| thrash.c | ||
| truncate.c | ||
| util.c | ||
| vmalloc.c | ||
| vmscan.c | ||
| vmstat.c | ||
| zpool.c | ||
| zsmalloc.c | ||