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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2012-01-09 16:16:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2012-01-09 16:16:29 +0000 |
| commit | dcf7ec5ee62a78123057a1e286c88ca739717409 (patch) | |
| tree | fa3f19434638a942ba66d236dde4d9aaadf8b370 /kernel/futex.c | |
| parent | 15db3e823c3246e3bd31fe454f5c8927eb85caf2 (diff) | |
| parent | 142f2101a86ade2d6c9dfbedf82e1b5b31c8fce6 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'samsung/driver' into next/drivers
Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-mxs/include/mach/common.h
Pull in previous samsung conflict merges and do a trivial
merge of an mxs double-add conflict.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/futex.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index ea87f4d2f455..1614be20173d 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -314,17 +314,29 @@ again: #endif lock_page(page_head); + + /* + * If page_head->mapping is NULL, then it cannot be a PageAnon + * page; but it might be the ZERO_PAGE or in the gate area or + * in a special mapping (all cases which we are happy to fail); + * or it may have been a good file page when get_user_pages_fast + * found it, but truncated or holepunched or subjected to + * invalidate_complete_page2 before we got the page lock (also + * cases which we are happy to fail). And we hold a reference, + * so refcount care in invalidate_complete_page's remove_mapping + * prevents drop_caches from setting mapping to NULL beneath us. + * + * The case we do have to guard against is when memory pressure made + * shmem_writepage move it from filecache to swapcache beneath us: + * an unlikely race, but we do need to retry for page_head->mapping. + */ if (!page_head->mapping) { + int shmem_swizzled = PageSwapCache(page_head); unlock_page(page_head); put_page(page_head); - /* - * ZERO_PAGE pages don't have a mapping. Avoid a busy loop - * trying to find one. RW mapping would have COW'd (and thus - * have a mapping) so this page is RO and won't ever change. - */ - if ((page_head == ZERO_PAGE(address))) - return -EFAULT; - goto again; + if (shmem_swizzled) + goto again; + return -EFAULT; } /* |