Re: [rfc] x86, ptrace: memory accounting for branch tracing

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 16 2008 - 12:31:37 EST



* Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Account memory allocated for the BTS buffer to the traced task's
> total_vm and locked_vm.

Andrew, is this the right (and preferred) way to attach BTS buffer
allocation overhead to the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK bucket:

> +static int ptrace_bts_allocate_buffer(struct task_struct *child, size_t size)
> +{
> + unsigned long rlim, vm, pgsz;
> + int error = -ENOMEM;
> +
> + pgsz = PAGE_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
> + down_write(&child->mm->mmap_sem);
> +
> + rlim = child->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_AS].rlim_cur >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> + vm = child->mm->total_vm + pgsz;
> + if (rlim < vm)
> + goto out;
> +
> + rlim = child->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_MEMLOCK].rlim_cur >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> + vm = child->mm->locked_vm + pgsz;
> + if (rlim < vm)
> + goto out;
> +
> + child->bts_buffer = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!child->bts_buffer)
> + goto out;
> +
> + child->bts_size = size;
> +
> + child->mm->total_vm += pgsz;
> + child->mm->locked_vm += pgsz;
> +
> + error = 0;
> + out:
> + up_write(&child->mm->mmap_sem);
> + return error;

?

Ingo
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