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authorHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>2009-09-21 17:01:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 07:17:31 -0700
commit3866ea90d3635ddddcd77ce51087222ac7de85f2 (patch)
treec11c2d04b66fa69472778bb03abb08c24e550211 /mm/madvise.c
parent828502d30073036a486d96b1fe051e0f08b6df83 (diff)
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ksm: first tidy up madvise_vma()
madvise.c has several levels of switch statements, what to do in which? Move MADV_DOFORK code down from madvise_vma() to madvise_behavior(), so madvise_vma() can be a simple router, to madvise_behavior() by default. vma->vm_flags is an unsigned long so use the same type for new_flags. Add missing comment lines to describe MADV_DONTFORK and MADV_DOFORK. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c39
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 76eb4193acdd..66c31264f062 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static long madvise_behavior(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
struct mm_struct * mm = vma->vm_mm;
int error = 0;
pgoff_t pgoff;
- int new_flags = vma->vm_flags;
+ unsigned long new_flags = vma->vm_flags;
switch (behavior) {
case MADV_NORMAL:
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ static long madvise_behavior(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
new_flags |= VM_DONTCOPY;
break;
case MADV_DOFORK:
+ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_IO) {
+ error = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
new_flags &= ~VM_DONTCOPY;
break;
}
@@ -211,37 +215,16 @@ static long
madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int behavior)
{
- long error;
-
switch (behavior) {
- case MADV_DOFORK:
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_IO) {
- error = -EINVAL;
- break;
- }
- case MADV_DONTFORK:
- case MADV_NORMAL:
- case MADV_SEQUENTIAL:
- case MADV_RANDOM:
- error = madvise_behavior(vma, prev, start, end, behavior);
- break;
case MADV_REMOVE:
- error = madvise_remove(vma, prev, start, end);
- break;
-
+ return madvise_remove(vma, prev, start, end);
case MADV_WILLNEED:
- error = madvise_willneed(vma, prev, start, end);
- break;
-
+ return madvise_willneed(vma, prev, start, end);
case MADV_DONTNEED:
- error = madvise_dontneed(vma, prev, start, end);
- break;
-
+ return madvise_dontneed(vma, prev, start, end);
default:
- BUG();
- break;
+ return madvise_behavior(vma, prev, start, end, behavior);
}
- return error;
}
static int
@@ -262,6 +245,7 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
return 0;
}
}
+
/*
* The madvise(2) system call.
*
@@ -286,6 +270,9 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
* so the kernel can free resources associated with it.
* MADV_REMOVE - the application wants to free up the given range of
* pages and associated backing store.
+ * MADV_DONTFORK - omit this area from child's address space when forking:
+ * typically, to avoid COWing pages pinned by get_user_pages().
+ * MADV_DOFORK - cancel MADV_DONTFORK: no longer omit this area when forking.
*
* return values:
* zero - success