x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace
On x86, 5-level paging enables 56-bit userspace virtual address space. Not all user space is ready to handle wide addresses. It's known that at least some JIT compilers use higher bits in pointers to encode their information. It collides with valid pointers with 5-level paging and leads to crashes. To mitigate this, we are not going to allocate virtual address space above 47-bit by default. But userspace can ask for allocation from full address space by specifying hint address (with or without MAP_FIXED) above 47-bits. If hint address set above 47-bit, but MAP_FIXED is not specified, we try to look for unmapped area by specified address. If it's already occupied, we look for unmapped area in *full* address space, rather than from 47-bit window. A high hint address would only affect the allocation in question, but not any future mmap()s. Specifying high hint address on older kernel or on machine without 5-level paging support is safe. The hint will be ignored and kernel will fall back to allocation from 47-bit address space. This approach helps to easily make application's memory allocator aware about large address space without manually tracking allocated virtual address space. The patch puts all machinery in place, but not yet allows userspace to have mappings above 47-bit -- TASK_SIZE_MAX has to be raised to get the effect. Signed-off-by:Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170716225954.74185-7-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by:
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