From a8fb5618dab7e45c8990f3155628d772a9ed45f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:15:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: unlink_file_vma, remove_vma Divide remove_vm_struct into two parts: first anon_vma_unlink plus unlink_file_vma, to unlink the vma from the list and tree by which rmap or vmtruncate might find it; then remove_vma to close, fput and free. The intention here is to do the anon_vma_unlink and unlink_file_vma earlier, in free_pgtables before freeing any page tables: so we can be sure that any page tables traversed by rmap and vmtruncate are stable (and other, ordinary cases are stabilized by holding mmap_sem). This will be crucial to traversing pgd,pud,pmd without page_table_lock. But testing the split-out patch showed that lifting the page_table_lock is symbiotically necessary to make this change - the lock ordering is wrong to move those unlinks into free_pgtables while it's under ptlock. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 376a466743bc..0c64484d8ae0 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -834,6 +834,7 @@ extern int split_vma(struct mm_struct *, extern int insert_vm_struct(struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *); extern void __vma_link_rb(struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *, struct rb_node **, struct rb_node *); +extern void unlink_file_vma(struct vm_area_struct *); extern struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **, unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, pgoff_t pgoff); extern void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *); -- cgit v1.2.3