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-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c41
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 39fd416ae14f..88f9422b92e7 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -607,27 +607,6 @@ check_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
return first;
}
-/* Apply policy to a single VMA */
-static int policy_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mempolicy *new)
-{
- int err = 0;
- struct mempolicy *old = vma->vm_policy;
-
- pr_debug("vma %lx-%lx/%lx vm_ops %p vm_file %p set_policy %p\n",
- vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, vma->vm_pgoff,
- vma->vm_ops, vma->vm_file,
- vma->vm_ops ? vma->vm_ops->set_policy : NULL);
-
- if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->set_policy)
- err = vma->vm_ops->set_policy(vma, new);
- if (!err) {
- mpol_get(new);
- vma->vm_policy = new;
- mpol_put(old);
- }
- return err;
-}
-
/* Step 2: apply policy to a range and do splits. */
static int mbind_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, struct mempolicy *new_pol)
@@ -676,9 +655,23 @@ static int mbind_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
if (err)
goto out;
}
- err = policy_vma(vma, new_pol);
- if (err)
- goto out;
+
+ /*
+ * Apply policy to a single VMA. The reference counting of
+ * policy for vma_policy linkages has already been handled by
+ * vma_merge and split_vma as necessary. If this is a shared
+ * policy then ->set_policy will increment the reference count
+ * for an sp node.
+ */
+ pr_debug("vma %lx-%lx/%lx vm_ops %p vm_file %p set_policy %p\n",
+ vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, vma->vm_pgoff,
+ vma->vm_ops, vma->vm_file,
+ vma->vm_ops ? vma->vm_ops->set_policy : NULL);
+ if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->set_policy) {
+ err = vma->vm_ops->set_policy(vma, new_pol);
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
+ }
}
out: