[PATCH 13 of 66] export maybe_mkwrite

Andrea Arcangeli
2010-11-03T15:30:59Z

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

huge_memory.c needs it too when it fallbacks in copying hugepages into regular
fragmented pages if hugepage allocation fails during COW.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -416,6 +416,19 @@ static inline void set_compound_order(st
}

/*
+ * Do pte_mkwrite, but only if the vma says VM_WRITE. We do this when
+ * servicing faults for write access. In the normal case, do always want
+ * pte_mkwrite. But get_user_pages can cause write faults for mappings
+ * that do not have writing enabled, when used by access_process_vm.
+ */
+static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ if (likely(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
+ pte = pte_mkwrite(pte);
+ return pte;
+}
+
+/*
* Multiple processes may "see" the same page. E.g. for untouched
* mappings of /dev/null, all processes see the same page full of
* zeroes, and text pages of executables and shared libraries have
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2048,19 +2048,6 @@ static inline int pte_unmap_same(struct
return same;
}

-/*
- * Do pte_mkwrite, but only if the vma says VM_WRITE. We do this when
- * servicing faults for write access. In the normal case, do always want
- * pte_mkwrite. But get_user_pages can cause write faults for mappings
- * that do not have writing enabled, when used by access_process_vm.
- */
-static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
-{
- if (likely(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
- pte = pte_mkwrite(pte);
- return pte;
-}
-
static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned long va, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
/*