[patch 10/36] export maybe_mkwrite

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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>

huge_memory.c needs it too when it fallbacks in copying hugepages into regular
fragmented pages if hugepage allocation fails during COW.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -387,6 +387,19 @@ static inline void set_compound_order(st
 }
 
 /*
+ * Do pte_mkwrite, but only if the vma says VM_WRITE.  We do this when
+ * servicing faults for write access.  In the normal case, do always want
+ * pte_mkwrite.  But get_user_pages can cause write faults for mappings
+ * that do not have writing enabled, when used by access_process_vm.
+ */
+static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	if (likely(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
+		pte = pte_mkwrite(pte);
+	return pte;
+}
+
+/*
  * Multiple processes may "see" the same page. E.g. for untouched
  * mappings of /dev/null, all processes see the same page full of
  * zeroes, and text pages of executables and shared libraries have
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1943,19 +1943,6 @@ static inline int pte_unmap_same(struct 
 	return same;
 }
 
-/*
- * Do pte_mkwrite, but only if the vma says VM_WRITE.  We do this when
- * servicing faults for write access.  In the normal case, do always want
- * pte_mkwrite.  But get_user_pages can cause write faults for mappings
- * that do not have writing enabled, when used by access_process_vm.
- */
-static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
-{
-	if (likely(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
-		pte = pte_mkwrite(pte);
-	return pte;
-}
-
 static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned long va, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	/*

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