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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-10-02 14:50:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-02 15:53:13 -0700
commit4b19de6d1cb07c8bcb6778e771f9cfd5bcfdfd3e (patch)
tree3c570060d915cb1e140fbdbbfb4a9efde26a37ff /include/linux
parent6c1b7f680dd4f550fa6f91f148cc6fa2c4bd0737 (diff)
mm: tiny-shmem nommu fix
The previous patch db203d53d474aa068984e409d807628f5841da1b ("mm: tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex") to fix the lock ordering in tiny-shmem breaks shared anonymous and IPC memory on NOMMU architectures because it was using the expanding truncate to signal ramfs to allocate a physically contiguous RAM backing the inode (otherwise it is unusable for "memory mapping" it to userspace). However do_truncate is what caused the lock ordering error, due to it taking i_mutex. In this case, we can actually just call ramfs directly to allocate memory for the mapping, rather than go via truncate. Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ramfs.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ramfs.h b/include/linux/ramfs.h
index b160fb18e8d..37aaf2b3986 100644
--- a/include/linux/ramfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ramfs.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ extern int ramfs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data, struct vfsmount *mnt);
#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+extern int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize);
extern unsigned long ramfs_nommu_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file,
unsigned long addr,
unsigned long len,