Re: [PATCH v1] mm, hugepages: add mremap() support for hugepage backed vma

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:15:22 -0700 Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Support mremap() for hugepage backed vma segment by simply repositioning
> page table entries. The page table entries are repositioned to the new
> virtual address on mremap().
> 
> Hugetlb mremap() support is of course generic; my motivating use case
> is a library (hugepage_text), which reloads the ELF text of executables
> in hugepages. This significantly increases the execution performance of
> said executables.
> 
> Restricts the mremap operation on hugepages to up to the size of the
> original mapping as the underlying hugetlb reservation is not yet
> capable of handling remapping to a larger size.
> 
> Tested with a simple mmap/mremap test case, roughly:
> 
> void* haddr = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC,
> 		MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
> 
> void* taddr = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_NONE,
> 		MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
> 
> void* raddr = mremap(haddr, size, size, MREMAP_MAYMOVE | MREMAP_FIXED, taddr);

Could we please get testing for this added into tools/testing/selftests/?