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mm: track the root (oldest) anon_vma
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:39 +0000 (17:18 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:44:55 +0000 (20:44 -0700)
commitefc624f35f6e93363c02aa9052a7b7d631e187f4
tree41f05611f8b1d7562c2193ade8c089408f262a6b
parent0502e40bc620bd311603d2c9be220d3340b1472a
mm: track the root (oldest) anon_vma

Track the root (oldest) anon_vma in each anon_vma tree.  Because we only
take the lock on the root anon_vma, we cannot use the lock on higher-up
anon_vmas to lock anything.  This makes it impossible to do an indirect
lookup of the root anon_vma, since the data structures could go away from
under us.

However, a direct pointer is safe because the root anon_vma is always the
last one that gets freed on munmap or exit, by virtue of the same_vma list
order and unlink_anon_vmas walking the list forward.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/rmap.h
mm/rmap.c