[PATCH] mm: vma_adjust insert file earlier
For those arches (arm and parisc) which use the i_mmap tree to implement flush_dcache_page, during split_vma there's a small window in vma_adjust when flush_dcache_mmap_lock is dropped, and pages in the split-off part of the vma might for an instant be invisible to __flush_dcache_page. Though we're more solid there than ever before, I guess it's a bad idea to leave that window: so (with regret, it was structurally nicer before) take __vma_link_file (and vma_prio_tree_init) out of __vma_link. vma_prio_tree_init (which NULLs a few fields) is actually only needed when copying a vma, not when a new one has just been memset to 0. __insert_vm_struct is used by nothing but vma_adjust's split_vma case: comment it accordingly, remove its mark_mm_hugetlb (it can never create a new kind of vma) and its validate_mm (another follows immediately). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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