Stop playing silly games with the VM_ACCOUNT flag

The mmap_region() code would temporarily set the VM_ACCOUNT flag for
anonymous shared mappings just to inform shmem_zero_setup() that it
should enable accounting for the resulting shm object.  It would then
clear the flag after calling ->mmap (for the /dev/zero case) or doing
shmem_zero_setup() (for the MAP_ANON case).

This just resulted in vma merge issues, but also made for just
unnecessary confusion.  Use the already-existing VM_NORESERVE flag for
this instead, and let shmem_{zero|file}_setup() just figure it out from
that.

This also happens to make it obvious that the new DRI2 GEM layer uses a
non-reserving backing store for its object allocation - which is quite
possibly not intentional.  But since I didn't want to change semantics
in this patch, I left it alone, and just updated the caller to use the
new flag semantics.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Linus Torvalds 2009-01-31 15:08:56 -08:00
commit fc8744adc8
4 changed files with 29 additions and 27 deletions

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@ -2628,7 +2628,7 @@ struct file *shmem_file_setup(char *name, loff_t size, unsigned long flags)
goto close_file;
#ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM
SHMEM_I(inode)->flags = flags & VM_ACCOUNT;
SHMEM_I(inode)->flags = (flags & VM_NORESERVE) ? 0 : VM_ACCOUNT;
#endif
d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
inode->i_size = size;