Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Date | Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:47:04 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | [11/55] shmem: let shared anonymous be nonlinear again |
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2.6.37-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
commit bee4c36a5cf5c9f63ce1d7372aa62045fbd16d47 upstream.
Up to 2.6.22, you could use remap_file_pages(2) on a tmpfs file or a shared mapping of /dev/zero or a shared anonymous mapping. In 2.6.23 we disabled it by default, but set VM_CAN_NONLINEAR to enable it on safe mappings. We made sure to set it in shmem_mmap() for tmpfs files, but missed it in shmem_zero_setup() for the others. Fix that at last.
Reported-by: Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- mm/shmem.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2784,5 +2784,6 @@ int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_stru fput(vma->vm_file); vma->vm_file = file; vma->vm_ops = &shmem_vm_ops; + vma->vm_flags |= VM_CAN_NONLINEAR; return 0; }
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