linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/6] NOMMU: Remove a superfluous check of vm_region::vm

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:58:40 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, vapier@...too.org, lethal@...ux-sh.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] NOMMU: Remove a superfluous check of vm_region::vm_usage

In split_vma(), there's no need to check if the VMA being split has a region
that's in use by more than one VMA because:

 (1) The preceding test prohibits splitting of non-anonymous VMAs and regions
     (eg: file or chardev backed VMAs).

 (2) Anonymous regions can't be mapped multiple times because there's no handle
     by which to refer to the already existing region.

 (3) If a VMA has previously been split, then the region backing it has also
     been split into two regions, each of usage 1.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
---

 mm/nommu.c |    7 +++----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 5e39294..d6dd656 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1441,10 +1441,9 @@ int split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 	kenter("");
 
-	/* we're only permitted to split anonymous regions that have a single
-	 * owner */
-	if (vma->vm_file ||
-	    vma->vm_region->vm_usage != 1)
+	/* we're only permitted to split anonymous regions (these should have
+	 * only a single usage on the region) */
+	if (vma->vm_file)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	if (mm->map_count >= sysctl_max_map_count)

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