On most architectures, def_flags is either 0 or VM_LOCKED depending on
whether mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) was called. However, this is not an absolute
rule as kvm support on s390 may set the VM_NOHUGEPAGE flag in def_flags.
We don't want mlockall to clear that.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mlock.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index f0b9ce572fc7..a2ee45c030fa 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -517,10 +517,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
static int do_mlockall(int flags)
{
struct vm_area_struct * vma, * prev = NULL;
- unsigned int def_flags = 0;
+ unsigned int def_flags;
+ def_flags = current->mm->def_flags & ~VM_LOCKED;
if (flags & MCL_FUTURE)
- def_flags = VM_LOCKED;
+ def_flags |= VM_LOCKED;
current->mm->def_flags = def_flags;
if (flags == MCL_FUTURE)
goto out;
--
1.7.7.3
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