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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-05-02 19:27:14 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-05-02 19:27:14 +0200
commitd6dd61c831226f9cd7750885da04d360d6455101 (patch)
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parent5311ab62cdc7788784971ed816ce85e926f3e994 (diff)
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[PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: add hooks to intercept mm creation and destruction
Add hooks to allow a paravirt implementation to track the lifetime of an mm. Paravirtualization requires three hooks, but only two are needed in common code. They are: arch_dup_mmap, which is called when a new mmap is created at fork arch_exit_mmap, which is called when the last process reference to an mm is dropped, which typically happens on exit and exec. The third hook is activate_mm, which is called from the arch-specific activate_mm() macro/function, and so doesn't need stub versions for other architectures. It's called when an mm is first used. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 6af959c034d8..ffccefb28b6a 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -286,6 +286,8 @@ static inline int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
if (retval)
goto out;
}
+ /* a new mm has just been created */
+ arch_dup_mmap(oldmm, mm);
retval = 0;
out:
up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);