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fix "mspec: handle shrinking virtual memory areas"

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The vma_data structure may be shared by vma's from multiple tasks, with no
way of knowing which areas are shared or not shared, so release/clear pages
only when the refcount (of vma's) goes to zero.

Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cliff Wickman 2007-09-24 21:24:41 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f9b7cba1b8
commit afa684f6fd
1 changed files with 8 additions and 18 deletions
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drivers/char/mspec.c
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@ -155,23 +155,22 @@ mspec_open(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
* mspec_close
*
* Called when unmapping a device mapping. Frees all mspec pages
* belonging to the vma.
* belonging to all the vma's sharing this vma_data structure.
*/
static void
mspec_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
struct vma_data *vdata;
int index, last_index, result;
int index, last_index;
unsigned long my_page;
vdata = vma->vm_private_data;
BUG_ON(vma->vm_start < vdata->vm_start || vma->vm_end > vdata->vm_end);
if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&vdata->refcnt))
return;
spin_lock(&vdata->lock);
index = (vma->vm_start - vdata->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
last_index = (vma->vm_end - vdata->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
for (; index < last_index; index++) {
last_index = (vdata->vm_end - vdata->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
for (index = 0; index < last_index; index++) {
if (vdata->maddr[index] == 0)
continue;
/*
@ -180,20 +179,12 @@ mspec_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
*/
my_page = vdata->maddr[index];
vdata->maddr[index] = 0;
spin_unlock(&vdata->lock);
result = mspec_zero_block(my_page, PAGE_SIZE);
if (!result)
if (!mspec_zero_block(my_page, PAGE_SIZE))
uncached_free_page(my_page);
else
printk(KERN_WARNING "mspec_close(): "
"failed to zero page %i\n",
result);
spin_lock(&vdata->lock);
"failed to zero page %ld\n", my_page);
}
spin_unlock(&vdata->lock);
if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&vdata->refcnt))
return;
if (vdata->flags & VMD_VMALLOCED)
vfree(vdata);
@ -201,7 +192,6 @@ mspec_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
kfree(vdata);
}
/*
* mspec_nopfn
*