mm: drop support of non-linear mapping from unmap/zap codepath

We have remap_file_pages(2) emulation in -mm tree for few release cycles
and we plan to have it mainline in v3.20. This patchset removes rest of
VM_NONLINEAR infrastructure.

Patches 1-8 take care about generic code. They are pretty
straight-forward and can be applied without other of patches.

Rest patches removes pte_file()-related stuff from architecture-specific
code. It usually frees up one bit in non-present pte. I've tried to reuse
that bit for swap offset, where I was able to figure out how to do that.

For obvious reason I cannot test all that arch-specific code and would
like to see acks from maintainers.

In total, remap_file_pages(2) required about 1.4K lines of not-so-trivial
kernel code. That's too much for functionality nobody uses.

Tested-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>

This patch (of 38):

We don't create non-linear mappings anymore. Let's drop code which
handles them on unmap/zap.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-02-10 14:09:49 -08:00
提交者 Linus Torvalds
父节点 c8d78c1823
当前提交 8a5f14a231
修改 3 个文件,包含 22 行新增70 行删除

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@@ -278,14 +278,7 @@ static long madvise_dontneed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_HUGETLB|VM_PFNMAP))
return -EINVAL;
if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR)) {
struct zap_details details = {
.nonlinear_vma = vma,
.last_index = ULONG_MAX,
};
zap_page_range(vma, start, end - start, &details);
} else
zap_page_range(vma, start, end - start, NULL);
zap_page_range(vma, start, end - start, NULL);
return 0;
}