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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 22:22:23 +0100 (BST)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@...hat.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ksm: clean up obsolete references
A few cleanups, given the munlock fix: the comment on ksm_test_exit()
no longer applies, and it can be made private to ksm.c; there's no
more reference to mmu_gather or tlb.h, and mmap.c doesn't need ksm.h.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
---
include/linux/ksm.h | 20 --------------------
mm/ksm.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
mm/mmap.c | 1 -
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
--- mmotm/include/linux/ksm.h 2009-09-05 14:40:16.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/include/linux/ksm.h 2009-09-05 16:41:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/vmstat.h>
-struct mmu_gather;
-
#ifdef CONFIG_KSM
int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags);
@@ -27,19 +25,6 @@ static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_str
return 0;
}
-/*
- * For KSM to handle OOM without deadlock when it's breaking COW in a
- * likely victim of the OOM killer, exit_mmap() has to serialize with
- * ksm_exit() after freeing mm's pages but before freeing its page tables.
- * That leaves a window in which KSM might refault pages which have just
- * been finally unmapped: guard against that with ksm_test_exit(), and
- * use it after getting mmap_sem in ksm.c, to check if mm is exiting.
- */
-static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
-{
- return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;
-}
-
static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags))
@@ -78,11 +63,6 @@ static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_str
{
return 0;
}
-
-static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
-{
- return 0;
-}
static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
--- mmotm/mm/ksm.c 2009-09-05 14:40:16.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/mm/ksm.c 2009-09-05 16:41:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
#include <linux/ksm.h>
-#include <asm/tlb.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
/*
@@ -285,6 +284,19 @@ static inline int in_stable_tree(struct
}
/*
+ * ksmd, and unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items(), must not touch an mm's
+ * page tables after it has passed through ksm_exit() - which, if necessary,
+ * takes mmap_sem briefly to serialize against them. ksm_exit() does not set
+ * a special flag: they can just back out as soon as mm_users goes to zero.
+ * ksm_test_exit() is used throughout to make this test for exit: in some
+ * places for correctness, in some places just to avoid unnecessary work.
+ */
+static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;
+}
+
+/*
* We use break_ksm to break COW on a ksm page: it's a stripped down
*
* if (get_user_pages(current, mm, addr, 1, 1, 1, &page, NULL) == 1)
--- mmotm/mm/mmap.c 2009-09-05 14:40:16.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/mm/mmap.c 2009-09-05 16:41:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/rmap.h>
-#include <linux/ksm.h>
#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
#include <linux/perf_counter.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
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