The only way a VMA can have shared and writable semantics is with a backing file. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 73220eb6e9e3..2a2e3648ed65 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -2167,9 +2167,7 @@ reuse: balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping); } - /* file_update_time outside page_lock */ - if (vma->vm_file) - file_update_time(vma->vm_file); + file_update_time(vma->vm_file); } put_page(dirty_page); if (page_mkwrite) { @@ -3025,8 +3023,7 @@ static int do_shared_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping); } - /* file_update_time outside page_lock */ - if (vma->vm_file && !vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite) + if (!vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite) file_update_time(vma->vm_file); return ret; -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>