ksm: clean up obsolete references

A few cleanups, given the munlock fix: the comment on ksm_test_exit() no
longer applies, and it can be made private to ksm.c; there's no more
reference to mmu_gather or tlb.h, and mmap.c doesn't need ksm.h.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/ksm.h b/include/linux/ksm.h
index 0e26de6adb519039e12b8f72221043a751af74d2..a485c14ecd5d52f892cbfe5ca3e22f0463c42a48 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/ksm.h
+++ b/include/linux/ksm.h
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/vmstat.h>
 
-struct mmu_gather;
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_KSM
 int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
                unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags);
@@ -27,19 +25,6 @@ static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
        return 0;
 }
 
-/*
- * For KSM to handle OOM without deadlock when it's breaking COW in a
- * likely victim of the OOM killer, exit_mmap() has to serialize with
- * ksm_exit() after freeing mm's pages but before freeing its page tables.
- * That leaves a window in which KSM might refault pages which have just
- * been finally unmapped: guard against that with ksm_test_exit(), and
- * use it after getting mmap_sem in ksm.c, to check if mm is exiting.
- */
-static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
-{
-       return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;
-}
-
 static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
        if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags))
@@ -79,11 +64,6 @@ static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
        return 0;
 }
 
-static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
-{
-       return 0;
-}
-
 static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 }

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 3bd54ce9eb3809afa078b2463c2bf6bccf0a2220..e11e7a5ac84f6a9076072077c2f622acea71245a 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 #include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
 #include <linux/ksm.h>
 
-#include <asm/tlb.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
 /*
@@ -284,6 +283,19 @@ static inline int in_stable_tree(struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
        return rmap_item->address & STABLE_FLAG;
 }
 
+/*
+ * ksmd, and unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items(), must not touch an mm's
+ * page tables after it has passed through ksm_exit() - which, if necessary,
+ * takes mmap_sem briefly to serialize against them.  ksm_exit() does not set
+ * a special flag: they can just back out as soon as mm_users goes to zero.
+ * ksm_test_exit() is used throughout to make this test for exit: in some
+ * places for correctness, in some places just to avoid unnecessary work.
+ */
+static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+       return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * We use break_ksm to break COW on a ksm page: it's a stripped down
  *

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 22dff49d579eb153f6f675d107dcf64d7de04084..6eed98c0054357187b3716733ef7dd2ef8a04af1 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/mempolicy.h>
 #include <linux/rmap.h>
-#include <linux/ksm.h>
 #include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
 #include <linux/perf_event.h>