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authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>2013-02-22 16:32:37 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-23 17:50:10 -0800
commitbebeb3d68b24bb4132d452c5707fe321208bcbcd (patch)
tree6e609cb7323fb1b4b7026fa0e35867145a181094 /mm/nommu.c
parent940e7da5163029978c2f6b5bbe213607add59062 (diff)
mm: introduce mm_populate() for populating new vmas
When creating new mappings using the MAP_POPULATE / MAP_LOCKED flags (or with MCL_FUTURE in effect), we want to populate the pages within the newly created vmas. This may take a while as we may have to read pages from disk, so ideally we want to do this outside of the write-locked mmap_sem region. This change introduces mm_populate(), which is used to defer populating such mappings until after the mmap_sem write lock has been released. This is implemented as a generalization of the former do_mlock_pages(), which accomplished the same task but was using during mlock() / mlockall(). Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gregungerer@westnet.com.au> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/nommu.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index b20db4e22263..7296a5a280e7 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1250,7 +1250,8 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file,
unsigned long len,
unsigned long prot,
unsigned long flags,
- unsigned long pgoff)
+ unsigned long pgoff,
+ bool *populate)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
struct vm_region *region;
@@ -1260,6 +1261,8 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file,
kenter(",%lx,%lx,%lx,%lx,%lx", addr, len, prot, flags, pgoff);
+ *populate = false;
+
/* decide whether we should attempt the mapping, and if so what sort of
* mapping */
ret = validate_mmap_request(file, addr, len, prot, flags, pgoff,