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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2005-10-29 18:15:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-29 21:40:37 -0700
commita8fb5618dab7e45c8990f3155628d772a9ed45f9 (patch)
tree77977b8fb2f57c855da9e3168977521e8393776a /include/linux
parent2c0b381467bc2997be9d741a152f3fc75785eedc (diff)
[PATCH] mm: unlink_file_vma, remove_vma
Divide remove_vm_struct into two parts: first anon_vma_unlink plus unlink_file_vma, to unlink the vma from the list and tree by which rmap or vmtruncate might find it; then remove_vma to close, fput and free. The intention here is to do the anon_vma_unlink and unlink_file_vma earlier, in free_pgtables before freeing any page tables: so we can be sure that any page tables traversed by rmap and vmtruncate are stable (and other, ordinary cases are stabilized by holding mmap_sem). This will be crucial to traversing pgd,pud,pmd without page_table_lock. But testing the split-out patch showed that lifting the page_table_lock is symbiotically necessary to make this change - the lock ordering is wrong to move those unlinks into free_pgtables while it's under ptlock. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 376a466743b..0c64484d8ae 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -834,6 +834,7 @@ extern int split_vma(struct mm_struct *,
extern int insert_vm_struct(struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
extern void __vma_link_rb(struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *,
struct rb_node **, struct rb_node *);
+extern void unlink_file_vma(struct vm_area_struct *);
extern struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **,
unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, pgoff_t pgoff);
extern void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *);