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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-28 14:34:23 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-28 14:34:23 -0800
commit6aab341e0a28aff100a09831c5300a2994b8b986 (patch)
tree1af3908275aa5e1b16e80efee554a9a7504c56d4 /mm/madvise.c
parent458af5439fe7ae7d95ca14106844e61f0795166c (diff)
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mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logic
This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP. It allows a VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM never touches, and never considers to be normal pages. Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or indeed mark them any other way. It just works. As a side effect, doing mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges. Sparc update from David in the next commit. 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 328a3bcce527..2b7cf0400a21 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_UNPAGED))
+ if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_HUGETLB|VM_PFNMAP))
return -EINVAL;
if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR)) {