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fix "mspec: handle shrinking virtual memory areas"
authorCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:24:41 +0000 (21:24 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:51:04 +0000 (08:51 -0700)
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>
drivers/char/mspec.c

index 049a46cc9f87612b157d2abbe0aedd568d3e3372..04ac155d3a0794cf3d7958722e1532e198aa2c52 100644 (file)
@@ -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
  *