From fc148a5f7e0532750c312385c7ee9fa3e9311f34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:42:10 -0800 Subject: mm: remove VM_LOCK_RMAP code When a VMA is in an inconsistent state during setup or teardown, the worst that can happen is that the rmap code will not be able to find the page. The mapping is in the process of being torn down (PTEs just got invalidated by munmap), or set up (no PTEs have been instantiated yet). It is also impossible for the rmap code to follow a pointer to an already freed VMA, because the rmap code holds the anon_vma->lock, which the VMA teardown code needs to take before the VMA is removed from the anon_vma chain. Hence, we should not need the VM_LOCK_RMAP locking at all. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Larry Woodman Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mmap.c | 15 --------------- 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/mmap.c') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 6a0c15db7f60..f1b4448626bf 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -554,9 +554,7 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end); */ if (importer && !importer->anon_vma) { /* Block reverse map lookups until things are set up. */ - importer->vm_flags |= VM_LOCK_RMAP; if (anon_vma_clone(importer, vma)) { - importer->vm_flags &= ~VM_LOCK_RMAP; return -ENOMEM; } importer->anon_vma = anon_vma; @@ -618,11 +616,6 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end); __vma_unlink(mm, next, vma); if (file) __remove_shared_vm_struct(next, file, mapping); - /* - * This VMA is now dead, no need for rmap to follow it. - * Call anon_vma_merge below, outside of i_mmap_lock. - */ - next->vm_flags |= VM_LOCK_RMAP; } else if (insert) { /* * split_vma has split insert from vma, and needs @@ -635,20 +628,12 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end); if (mapping) spin_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock); - /* - * The current VMA has been set up. It is now safe for the - * rmap code to get from the pages to the ptes. - */ - if (anon_vma && importer) - importer->vm_flags &= ~VM_LOCK_RMAP; - if (remove_next) { if (file) { fput(file); if (next->vm_flags & VM_EXECUTABLE) removed_exe_file_vma(mm); } - /* Protected by mmap_sem and VM_LOCK_RMAP. */ if (next->anon_vma) anon_vma_merge(vma, next); mm->map_count--; -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522