linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 18/27] mm: Introduce do_mmap

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Message-ID: <20190607074322.GP3419@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Fri, 7 Jun 2019 09:43:22 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 18/27] mm: Introduce do_mmap_locked()

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 01:06:37PM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> There are a few places that need do_mmap() with mm->mmap_sem held.
> Create an in-line function for that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 398f1e1c35e5..7cf014604848 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -2411,6 +2411,24 @@ static inline void mm_populate(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
>  static inline void mm_populate(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len) {}
>  #endif
>  
> +static inline unsigned long do_mmap_locked(unsigned long addr,
> +	unsigned long len, unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
> +	vm_flags_t vm_flags)
> +{
> +	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
> +	unsigned long populate;
> +
> +	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +	addr = do_mmap(NULL, addr, len, prot, flags, vm_flags, 0,
> +		       &populate, NULL);

Funny thing how do_mmap() takes a file pointer as first argument and
this thing explicitly NULLs that. That more or less invalidates the name
do_mmap_locked().

> +	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +
> +	if (populate)
> +		mm_populate(addr, populate);
> +
> +	return addr;
> +}