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Message-ID: <20100114135840.10482.44507.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
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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