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linux/mm
Jie Zhang ea63763959 nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flag
The NOMMU code currently clears all anonymous mmapped memory.  While this
is what we want in the default case, all memory allocation from userspace
under NOMMU has to go through this interface, including malloc() which is
allowed to return uninitialized memory.  This can easily be a significant
performance penalty.  So for constrained embedded systems were security is
irrelevant, allow people to avoid clearing memory unnecessarily.

This also alters the ELF-FDPIC binfmt such that it obtains uninitialised
memory for the brk and stack region.

Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
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backing-dev.c flusher: Fix PF_FROZEN race 2009-12-03 13:49:43 +01:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: properly __init-annotate helper functions 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
bounce.c
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
filemap.c kill wait_on_page_writeback_range 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
fremap.c
highmem.c highmem: Fix debug_kmap_atomic() to also handle KM_IRQ_PTE, KM_NMI, and KM_NMI_PTE 2009-11-10 04:15:47 +01:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: abort a hugepage pool resize if a signal is pending 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs 2009-09-16 11:50:17 +02:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: remove unevictable_migrate_page function 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
Kconfig ksm: remove unswappable max_kernel_pages 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c tree-wide: fix typos "aquire" -> "acquire", "cumsumed" -> "consumed" 2009-11-09 09:40:57 +01:00
ksm.c ksm: remove unswappable max_kernel_pages 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
maccess.c
madvise.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Makefile percpu: kill legacy percpu allocator 2009-10-02 13:29:29 +09:00
memcontrol.c ksm: mem cgroup charge swapin copy 2009-12-15 08:53:19 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: fix section mismatch in memory_hotplug.c 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: CONFIG_MMU for PG_mlocked 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
memory.c ksm: let shared pages be swappable 2009-12-15 08:53:19 -08:00
mempolicy.c ksm: memory hotremove migration only 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c mm: remove unevictable_migrate_page function 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
mincore.c mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in mincore() 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
mlock.c mlock: replace stale comments in munlock_vma_page() 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: uncached vma support with writenotify 2009-12-15 08:53:21 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: reduce atomic use on use_mm fast path 2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c ksm: add mmu_notifier set_pte_at_notify() 2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
mremap.c Take arch_mmap_check() into get_unmapped_area() 2009-12-11 06:44:58 -05:00
msync.c
nommu.c nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flag 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
oom_kill.c oom: dump stack and VM state when oom killer panics 2009-12-15 08:53:10 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: CONFIG_MMU for PG_mlocked 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
page_cgroup.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
page_io.c swap: rework map_swap_page() again 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks 2009-12-03 13:54:25 +01:00
pagewalk.c mm hugetlb: add hugepage support to pagemap 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next 2009-12-08 10:02:12 +09:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist. 2009-09-24 09:34:52 +09:30
readahead.c
rmap.c mm: simplify try_to_unmap_one() 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c swap_info: note SWAP_MAP_SHMEM 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
slab.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
slob.c
slub.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
sparse.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: add_to_swap_cache() does not return -EEXIST 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
swap.c mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
swapfile.c ksm: let shared pages be swappable 2009-12-15 08:53:19 -08:00
thrash.c
truncate.c mm: fix comments for invalidate_inode_pages2() 2009-12-04 15:39:48 +01:00
util.c fix a struct file leak in do_mmap_pgoff() 2009-12-11 06:44:57 -05:00
vmalloc.c vmalloc(): adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation 2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
vmscan.c vmscan: simplify code 2009-12-15 08:53:21 -08:00
vmstat.c vmscan: stop kswapd waiting on congestion when the min watermark is not being met 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00