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authorHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>2009-09-21 17:03:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 07:17:40 -0700
commit8e4b9a60718970bbc02dfd3abd0b956ab65af231 (patch)
tree4c19152cea19882071a74f92c0cf6a16d5711f41 /include/linux
parentf3e8fccd06d27773186a0094371daf2d84c79469 (diff)
mm: FOLL_DUMP replace FOLL_ANON
The "FOLL_ANON optimization" and its use_zero_page() test have caused confusion and bugs: why does it test VM_SHARED? for the very good but unsatisfying reason that VMware crashed without. As we look to maybe reinstating anonymous use of the ZERO_PAGE, we need to sort this out. Easily done: it's silly for __get_user_pages() and follow_page() to be guessing whether it's safe to assume that they're being used for a coredump (which can take a shortcut snapshot where other uses must handle a fault) - just tell them with GUP_FLAGS_DUMP and FOLL_DUMP. get_dump_page() doesn't even want a ZERO_PAGE: an error suits fine. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> 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/mm.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index e41795bba95..45ee5b5a343 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long address,
#define FOLL_WRITE 0x01 /* check pte is writable */
#define FOLL_TOUCH 0x02 /* mark page accessed */
#define FOLL_GET 0x04 /* do get_page on page */
-#define FOLL_ANON 0x08 /* give ZERO_PAGE if no pgtable */
+#define FOLL_DUMP 0x08 /* give error on hole if it would be zero */
typedef int (*pte_fn_t)(pte_t *pte, pgtable_t token, unsigned long addr,
void *data);