The patch titled
Subject: mm, madvise: use vma_is_anonymous() to check for anon VMA
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-madvise-use-vma_is_anonymous-to-check-for-anon-vma.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-madvise-use-vma_is_anonymous-to-check-for-anon-vma.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-madvise-use-vma_is_anonymous-to-check-for-anon-vma.patch
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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, madvise: use vma_is_anonymous() to check for anon VMA
!vma->vm_file is not reliable to detect anon VMA, because not all
drivers bother set it. Let's use vma_is_anonymous() instead.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-use-vma_is_anonymous-to-check-for-anon-vma mm/madvise.c
--- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-use-vma_is_anonymous-to-check-for-anon-vma
+++ a/mm/madvise.c
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static int madvise_free_single_vma(struc
return -EINVAL;
/* MADV_FREE works for only anon vma at the moment */
- if (vma->vm_file)
+ if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma))
return -EINVAL;
start = max(vma->vm_start, start_addr);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-fix-status-code-move_pages-returns-for-zero-page.patch
mm-make-gup-handle-pfn-mapping-unless-foll_get-is-requested.patch
mm-make-gup-handle-pfn-mapping-unless-foll_get-is-requested-fix.patch
mremap-dont-leak-new_vma-if-f_op-mremap-fails.patch
mm-move-mremap-from-file_operations-to-vm_operations_struct.patch
mremap-dont-do-mm_populatenew_addr-on-failure.patch
mremap-dont-do-uneccesary-checks-if-new_len-==-old_len.patch
mremap-simplify-the-overlap-check-in-mremap_to.patch
mm-introduce-vma_is_anonymousvma-helper.patch
mmap-fix-the-usage-of-vm_pgoff-in-special_mapping-paths.patch
mremap-fix-the-wrong-vma-vm_file-check-in-copy_vma.patch
thp-vma_adjust_trans_huge-adjust-file-backed-vma-too.patch
dax-move-dax-related-functions-to-a-new-header.patch
thp-prepare-for-dax-huge-pages.patch
mm-add-a-pmd_fault-handler.patch
mm-export-various-functions-for-the-benefit-of-dax.patch
mm-add-vmf_insert_pfn_pmd.patch
dax-add-huge-page-fault-support.patch
ext2-huge-page-fault-support.patch
ext4-huge-page-fault-support.patch
xfs-huge-page-fault-support.patch
mm-page_isolation-remove-bogus-tests-for-isolated-pages.patch
mm-rename-and-move-get-set_freepage_migratetype.patch
page-flags-trivial-cleanup-for-pagetrans-helpers.patch
page-flags-introduce-page-flags-policies-wrt-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_locked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-fs-io-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-lru-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-lru-related-flags-on-compound-pages-fix.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-slb-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_reserved-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapbacked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapcache-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_mlocked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uncached-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uptodate-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-look-on-head-page-if-the-flag-is-encoded-in-page-mapping.patch
mm-sanitize-page-mapping-for-tail-pages.patch
include-linux-page-flagsh-rename-macros-to-avoid-collisions.patch
mm-mark-most-vm_operations_struct-const.patch
x86-mpx-do-not-set-vm_ops-on-mpx-vmas.patch
mm-mpx-add-vm_flags_t-vm_flags-arg-to-do_mmap_pgoff.patch
mm-make-sure-all-file-vmas-have-vm_ops-set.patch
mm-use-vma_is_anonymous-in-create_huge_pmd-and-wp_huge_pmd.patch
mm-madvise-use-vma_is_anonymous-to-check-for-anon-vma.patch
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