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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2005-11-21 21:32:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-22 09:13:42 -0800
commit0b14c179a483e71ea41df2aa4a661760063115bd (patch)
tree075fc303a3d2fd33f66c0af8f64064cff2b72b79 /mm/madvise.c
parent664beed0190fae687ac51295694004902ddeb18e (diff)
[PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED
Although we tend to associate VM_RESERVED with remap_pfn_range, quite a few drivers set VM_RESERVED on areas which are then populated by nopage. The PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 changed VM_RESERVED not to free pages in zap_pte_range, without changing those drivers not to set it: so their pages just leak away. Let's not change miscellaneous drivers now: introduce VM_UNPAGED at the core, to flag the special areas where the ptes may have no struct page, or if they have then it's not to be touched. Replace most instances of VM_RESERVED in core mm by VM_UNPAGED. Force it on in remap_pfn_range, and the sparc and sparc64 io_remap_pfn_range. Revert addition of VM_RESERVED to powerpc vdso, it's not needed there. Is it needed anywhere? It still governs the mm->reserved_vm statistic, and special vmas not to be merged, and areas not to be core dumped; but could probably be eliminated later (the drivers are probably specifying it because in 2.4 it kept swapout off the vma, but in 2.6 we work from the LRU, which these pages don't get on). Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 17aaf3e1644..328a3bcce52 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static long madvise_dontneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
*prev = vma;
- if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_HUGETLB|VM_RESERVED))
+ if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_HUGETLB|VM_UNPAGED))
return -EINVAL;
if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR)) {