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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 0b78fb9ea65b..4ea600da8940 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1536,9 +1536,8 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_mbind(compat_ulong_t start, compat_ulong_t len, * * Returns effective policy for a VMA at specified address. * Falls back to @task or system default policy, as necessary. - * Current or other task's task mempolicy and non-shared vma policies - * are protected by the task's mmap_sem, which must be held for read by - * the caller. + * Current or other task's task mempolicy and non-shared vma policies must be + * protected by task_lock(task) by the caller. * Shared policies [those marked as MPOL_F_SHARED] require an extra reference * count--added by the get_policy() vm_op, as appropriate--to protect against * freeing by another task. It is the caller's responsibility to free the @@ -2038,28 +2037,6 @@ struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *old) return new; } -/* - * If *frompol needs [has] an extra ref, copy *frompol to *tompol , - * eliminate the * MPOL_F_* flags that require conditional ref and - * [NOTE!!!] drop the extra ref. Not safe to reference *frompol directly - * after return. Use the returned value. - * - * Allows use of a mempolicy for, e.g., multiple allocations with a single - * policy lookup, even if the policy needs/has extra ref on lookup. - * shmem_readahead needs this. - */ -struct mempolicy *__mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *tompol, - struct mempolicy *frompol) -{ - if (!mpol_needs_cond_ref(frompol)) - return frompol; - - *tompol = *frompol; - tompol->flags &= ~MPOL_F_SHARED; /* copy doesn't need unref */ - __mpol_put(frompol); - return tompol; -} - /* Slow path of a mempolicy comparison */ bool __mpol_equal(struct mempolicy *a, struct mempolicy *b) { |