The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/ksm: remove redundant code in ksm_fork
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-ksm-remove-redundant-code-in-ksm_fork.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/ksm: remove redundant code in ksm_fork
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 10:49:34 +0800
Since commit 3c6f33b7273a ("mm/ksm: support fork/exec for prctl"), when a
child process is forked, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag will be inherited in
mm_init(). So, it's unnecessary to set the flag in ksm_fork().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240402024934.1093361-1-tujinjiang@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/ksm.h | 12 ++----------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/ksm.h~mm-ksm-remove-redundant-code-in-ksm_fork
+++ a/include/linux/ksm.h
@@ -45,16 +45,8 @@ static inline void ksm_might_unmap_zero_
static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
{
- int ret;
-
- if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &oldmm->flags)) {
- ret = __ksm_enter(mm);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
- }
-
- if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &oldmm->flags))
- set_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &mm->flags);
+ if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &oldmm->flags))
+ return __ksm_enter(mm);
return 0;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from tujinjiang@xxxxxxxxxx are
