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mm: introduce mm_populate() for populating new vmas
authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:14:06 +0000 (13:14 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:52:24 +0000 (16:52 +1100)
commit51486b8ee3d286628695b213c2528486593e16ef
tree03fc8952d918830b75cf271c2575c44ef10afcb2
parent90df8e68d1c10315889e116c9bebb31d9e2220e5
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>
fs/aio.c
include/linux/mm.h
ipc/shm.c
mm/mlock.c
mm/mmap.c
mm/nommu.c
mm/util.c