The patch titled
mm: remove unused GUP flags
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-remove-unused-gup-flags.patch
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Subject: mm: remove unused GUP flags
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS and GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_SIGKILL were
flags added solely to prevent __get_user_pages() from doing some of
what it usually does, in the munlock case: we can now remove them.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/internal.h | 6 ++----
mm/memory.c | 14 ++++----------
mm/nommu.c | 6 ++----
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/internal.h~mm-remove-unused-gup-flags mm/internal.h
--- a/mm/internal.h~mm-remove-unused-gup-flags
+++ a/mm/internal.h
@@ -250,10 +250,8 @@ static inline void mminit_validate_memmo
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */
-#define GUP_FLAGS_WRITE 0x1
-#define GUP_FLAGS_FORCE 0x2
-#define GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS 0x4
-#define GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_SIGKILL 0x8
+#define GUP_FLAGS_WRITE 0x01
+#define GUP_FLAGS_FORCE 0x02
int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, int len, int flags,
diff -puN mm/memory.c~mm-remove-unused-gup-flags mm/memory.c
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-remove-unused-gup-flags
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -1217,8 +1217,6 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct
unsigned int vm_flags = 0;
int write = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_WRITE);
int force = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_FORCE);
- int ignore = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS);
- int ignore_sigkill = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_SIGKILL);
if (nr_pages <= 0)
return 0;
@@ -1244,7 +1242,7 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct
pte_t *pte;
/* user gate pages are read-only */
- if (!ignore && write)
+ if (write)
return i ? : -EFAULT;
if (pg > TASK_SIZE)
pgd = pgd_offset_k(pg);
@@ -1278,7 +1276,7 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct
if (!vma ||
(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)) ||
- (!ignore && !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags)))
+ !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags))
return i ? : -EFAULT;
if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
@@ -1298,13 +1296,9 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct
/*
* If we have a pending SIGKILL, don't keep faulting
- * pages and potentially allocating memory, unless
- * current is handling munlock--e.g., on exit. In
- * that case, we are not allocating memory. Rather,
- * we're only unlocking already resident/mapped pages.
+ * pages and potentially allocating memory.
*/
- if (unlikely(!ignore_sigkill &&
- fatal_signal_pending(current)))
+ if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(current)))
return i ? i : -ERESTARTSYS;
if (write)
diff -puN mm/nommu.c~mm-remove-unused-gup-flags mm/nommu.c
--- a/mm/nommu.c~mm-remove-unused-gup-flags
+++ a/mm/nommu.c
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct
int i;
int write = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_WRITE);
int force = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_FORCE);
- int ignore = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS);
/* calculate required read or write permissions.
* - if 'force' is set, we only require the "MAY" flags.
@@ -150,8 +149,8 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct
goto finish_or_fault;
/* protect what we can, including chardevs */
- if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP) ||
- (!ignore && !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags)))
+ if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)) ||
+ !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags))
goto finish_or_fault;
if (pages) {
@@ -170,7 +169,6 @@ finish_or_fault:
return i ? : -EFAULT;
}
-
/*
* get a list of pages in an address range belonging to the specified process
* and indicate the VMA that covers each page
_
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ksm-add-some-documentation.patch
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ksm-clean-up-obsolete-references.patch
ksm-unmerge-is-an-origin-of-ooms.patch
ksm-mremap-use-err-from-ksm_madvise.patch
mm-add_to_swap_cache-must-not-sleep.patch
mm-add_to_swap_cache-does-not-return-eexist.patch
mm-includecheck-fix-for-mm-shmemc.patch
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hugetlb-add-map_hugetlb-example.patch
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