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authorHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>2009-09-21 17:03:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 07:17:40 -0700
commit1c3aff1ceec2cc86810e2690e67873ff0c505862 (patch)
treebf2f1badfd3f8859299f00c8a95c0a11e5cfa778 /mm
parent408e82b78bcc9f1b47c76e833c3df97f675947de (diff)
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mm: remove unused GUP flags
GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS and GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_SIGKILL were flags added solely to prevent __get_user_pages() from doing some of what it usually does, in the munlock case: we can now remove them. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/internal.h6
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c14
-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c6
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index f290c4db528b..166765cd58d6 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -250,10 +250,8 @@ static inline void mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(unsigned long *start_pfn,
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */
-#define GUP_FLAGS_WRITE 0x1
-#define GUP_FLAGS_FORCE 0x2
-#define GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS 0x4
-#define GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_SIGKILL 0x8
+#define GUP_FLAGS_WRITE 0x01
+#define GUP_FLAGS_FORCE 0x02
int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, int len, int flags,
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 3cbeaaba5642..4b5200f5f35a 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1217,8 +1217,6 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned int vm_flags = 0;
int write = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_WRITE);
int force = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_FORCE);
- int ignore = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS);
- int ignore_sigkill = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_SIGKILL);
if (nr_pages <= 0)
return 0;
@@ -1244,7 +1242,7 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
pte_t *pte;
/* user gate pages are read-only */
- if (!ignore && write)
+ if (write)
return i ? : -EFAULT;
if (pg > TASK_SIZE)
pgd = pgd_offset_k(pg);
@@ -1278,7 +1276,7 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
if (!vma ||
(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)) ||
- (!ignore && !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags)))
+ !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags))
return i ? : -EFAULT;
if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
@@ -1298,13 +1296,9 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
/*
* If we have a pending SIGKILL, don't keep faulting
- * pages and potentially allocating memory, unless
- * current is handling munlock--e.g., on exit. In
- * that case, we are not allocating memory. Rather,
- * we're only unlocking already resident/mapped pages.
+ * pages and potentially allocating memory.
*/
- if (unlikely(!ignore_sigkill &&
- fatal_signal_pending(current)))
+ if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(current)))
return i ? i : -ERESTARTSYS;
if (write)
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 3b90086e85a2..386443e9d2c6 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
int i;
int write = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_WRITE);
int force = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_FORCE);
- int ignore = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS);
/* calculate required read or write permissions.
* - if 'force' is set, we only require the "MAY" flags.
@@ -190,8 +189,8 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
goto finish_or_fault;
/* protect what we can, including chardevs */
- if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP) ||
- (!ignore && !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags)))
+ if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)) ||
+ !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags))
goto finish_or_fault;
if (pages) {
@@ -210,7 +209,6 @@ finish_or_fault:
return i ? : -EFAULT;
}
-
/*
* get a list of pages in an address range belonging to the specified process
* and indicate the VMA that covers each page