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| author | Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> | 2013-02-23 04:32:37 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-02-24 05:50:10 +0400 |
| commit | bebeb3d68b24bb4132d452c5707fe321208bcbcd (patch) | |
| tree | 6e609cb7323fb1b4b7026fa0e35867145a181094 /mm/fremap.c | |
| parent | 940e7da5163029978c2f6b5bbe213607add59062 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bebeb3d68b24bb4132d452c5707fe321208bcbcd.tar.xz | |
mm: introduce mm_populate() for populating new vmas
When creating new mappings using the MAP_POPULATE / MAP_LOCKED flags (or
with MCL_FUTURE in effect), we want to populate the pages within the
newly created vmas. This may take a while as we may have to read pages
from disk, so ideally we want to do this outside of the write-locked
mmap_sem region.
This change introduces mm_populate(), which is used to defer populating
such mappings until after the mmap_sem write lock has been released.
This is implemented as a generalization of the former do_mlock_pages(),
which accomplished the same task but was using during mlock() /
mlockall().
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gregungerer@westnet.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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