mm: prevent KSM from breaking VMA merging for new VMAs

If a user wishes to enable KSM mergeability for an entire process and all
fork/exec'd processes that come after it, they use the prctl()
PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE operation.

This defaults all newly mapped VMAs to have the VM_MERGEABLE VMA flag set
(in order to indicate they are KSM mergeable), as well as setting this
flag for all existing VMAs and propagating this across fork/exec.

However it also breaks VMA merging for new VMAs, both in the process and
all forked (and fork/exec'd) child processes.

This is because when a new mapping is proposed, the flags specified will
never have VM_MERGEABLE set.  However all adjacent VMAs will already have
VM_MERGEABLE set, rendering VMAs unmergeable by default.

To work around this, we try to set the VM_MERGEABLE flag prior to
attempting a merge.  In the case of brk() this can always be done.

However on mmap() things are more complicated - while KSM is not supported
for MAP_SHARED file-backed mappings, it is supported for MAP_PRIVATE
file-backed mappings.

These mappings may have deprecated .mmap() callbacks specified which
could, in theory, adjust flags and thus KSM eligibility.

So we check to determine whether this is possible.  If not, we set
VM_MERGEABLE prior to the merge attempt on mmap(), otherwise we retain the
previous behaviour.

This fixes VMA merging for all new anonymous mappings, which covers the
majority of real-world cases, so we should see a significant improvement
in VMA mergeability.

For MAP_PRIVATE file-backed mappings, those which implement the
.mmap_prepare() hook and shmem are both known to be safe, so we allow
these, disallowing all other cases.

Also add stubs for newly introduced function invocations to VMA userland
testing.

[[email protected]: correctly invoke late KSM check after mmap hook]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3ba660af716d87a18ca5b4e635f2101edeb56340.1748537921.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: d7597f59d1d3 ("mm: add new api to enable ksm per process") # please no backport!
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Xu Xin <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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