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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/mlock.c
parent940e7da5163029978c2f6b5bbe213607add59062 (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mlock.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mlock.c17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index c9bd528b01d2..a296a49865df 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -416,7 +416,14 @@ static int do_mlock(unsigned long start, size_t len, int on)
return error;
}
-static int do_mlock_pages(unsigned long start, size_t len, int ignore_errors)
+/*
+ * __mm_populate - populate and/or mlock pages within a range of address space.
+ *
+ * This is used to implement mlock() and the MAP_POPULATE / MAP_LOCKED mmap
+ * flags. VMAs must be already marked with the desired vm_flags, and
+ * mmap_sem must not be held.
+ */
+int __mm_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long len, int ignore_errors)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
unsigned long end, nstart, nend;
@@ -498,7 +505,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(mlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
error = do_mlock(start, len, 1);
up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
if (!error)
- error = do_mlock_pages(start, len, 0);
+ error = __mm_populate(start, len, 0);
return error;
}
@@ -564,10 +571,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(mlockall, int, flags)
capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK))
ret = do_mlockall(flags);
up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
- if (!ret && (flags & MCL_CURRENT)) {
- /* Ignore errors */
- do_mlock_pages(0, TASK_SIZE, 1);
- }
+ if (!ret && (flags & MCL_CURRENT))
+ mm_populate(0, TASK_SIZE);
out:
return ret;
}