mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memorytmp/p3-vma-upstr

In many userspace applications, and especially in VM based applications
like Android uses heavily, there are multiple different allocators in use.
 At a minimum there is libc malloc and the stack, and in many cases there
are libc malloc, the stack, direct syscalls to mmap anonymous memory, and
multiple VM heaps (one for small objects, one for big objects, etc.).
Each of these layers usually has its own tools to inspect its usage;
malloc by compiling a debug version, the VM through heap inspection tools,
and for direct syscalls there is usually no way to track them.

On Android we heavily use a set of tools that use an extended version of
the logic covered in Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt to walk all pages mapped
in userspace and slice their usage by process, shared (COW) vs.  unique
mappings, backing, etc.  This can account for real physical memory usage
even in cases like fork without exec (which Android uses heavily to share
as many private COW pages as possible between processes), Kernel SamePage
Merging, and clean zero pages.  It produces a measurement of the pages
that only exist in that process (USS, for unique), and a measurement of
the physical memory usage of that process with the cost of shared pages
being evenly split between processes that share them (PSS).

If all anonymous memory is indistinguishable then figuring out the real
physical memory usage (PSS) of each heap requires either a pagemap walking
tool that can understand the heap debugging of every layer, or for every
layer's heap debugging tools to implement the pagemap walking logic, in
which case it is hard to get a consistent view of memory across the whole
system.

Tracking the information in userspace leads to all sorts of problems.
It either needs to be stored inside the process, which means every
process has to have an API to export its current heap information upon
request, or it has to be stored externally in a filesystem that
somebody needs to clean up on crashes.  It needs to be readable while
the process is still running, so it has to have some sort of
synchronization with every layer of userspace.  Efficiently tracking
the ranges requires reimplementing something like the kernel vma
trees, and linking to it from every layer of userspace.  It requires
more memory, more syscalls, more runtime cost, and more complexity to
separately track regions that the kernel is already tracking.

This patch adds a field to /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps to show a
userspace-provided name for anonymous vmas.  The names of named anonymous
vmas are shown in /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps as [anon:<name>].

Userspace can set the name for a region of memory by calling
prctl(PR_SET_VMA, PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, start, len, (unsigned long)name);
Setting the name to NULL clears it.

The name is stored in a user pointer in the shared union in vm_area_struct
that points to a null terminated string inside the user process.  vmas
that point to the same address and are otherwise mergeable will be merged,
but vmas that point to equivalent strings at different addresses will not
be merged.

The idea to store a userspace pointer to reduce the complexity within mm
(at the expense of the complexity of reading /proc/pid/mem) came from Dave
Hansen.  This results in no runtime overhead in the mm subsystem other
than comparing the anon_name pointers when considering vma merging.  The
pointer is stored in a union with fields that are only used on file-backed
mappings, so it does not increase memory usage.
(Upstream changed to remove the union, so this patch adds it back as well)

Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Change-Id: I0213a267e1b98b2932fd74ea8c63a50f0c760797

---

v2: updates the commit message to explain in more detail why the
    patch is useful.
v3: renames vma_get_anon_name to vma_anon_name
    replaces logic in seq_print_vma_name with access_process_vm
    removes Name: entry from smaps, it's already on the header line
    changes the prctl option number to match what is currently in
       use on Android
v4: adds paragraph to commit log on why this is better than tracking
       in userspace
    squashes fixes from Andrew Morton to fix build error and warning
    fix build error reported by Mark Salter when !CONFIG_MMU
v5: rebased to v5.9-rc1, added minor fixes to match upstream
v6: rebased to v5.9-rc3, and addressed review comments:
       - added missing callers in fs/userfaultd.c
       - simplified the union
       - use the new access_remote_vm_locked() in show_map_vma()
         since that already holds mmap_lock

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 496c3ff97cce..f7d54ae487e6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -336,11 +336,19 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
 	/*
 	 * For areas with an address space and backing store,
 	 * linkage into the address_space->i_mmap interval tree.
+	 *
+	 * For private anonymous mappings, a pointer to a null terminated string
+	 * in the user process containing the name given to the vma, or NULL
+	 * if unnamed.
 	 */
-	struct {
-		struct rb_node rb;
-		unsigned long rb_subtree_last;
-	} shared;
+
+	union {
+		struct {
+			struct rb_node rb;
+			unsigned long rb_subtree_last;
+		} shared;
+		const char __user *anon_name;
+	};
 
 	/*
 	 * A file's MAP_PRIVATE vma can be in both i_mmap tree and anon_vma
@@ -772,4 +780,13 @@ typedef struct {
 	unsigned long val;
 } swp_entry_t;
 
+/* Return the name for an anonymous mapping or NULL for a file-backed mapping */
+static inline const char __user *vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	if (vma->vm_file)
+		return NULL;
+
+	return vma->anon_name;
+}
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_MM_TYPES_H */