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authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>2013-02-22 16:32:37 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-23 17:50:10 -0800
commitbebeb3d68b24bb4132d452c5707fe321208bcbcd (patch)
tree6e609cb7323fb1b4b7026fa0e35867145a181094 /mm/msync.c
parent940e7da5163029978c2f6b5bbe213607add59062 (diff)
mm: introduce mm_populate() for populating new vmas
When creating new mappings using the MAP_POPULATE / MAP_LOCKED flags (or with MCL_FUTURE in effect), we want to populate the pages within the newly created vmas. This may take a while as we may have to read pages from disk, so ideally we want to do this outside of the write-locked mmap_sem region. This change introduces mm_populate(), which is used to defer populating such mappings until after the mmap_sem write lock has been released. This is implemented as a generalization of the former do_mlock_pages(), which accomplished the same task but was using during mlock() / mlockall(). Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gregungerer@westnet.com.au> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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