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mm: make the vma list be doubly linked

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It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards
in it to find the previous vma.  So rather than have to look up the
previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it
doubly linked instead.

Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds
2010-08-20 16:24:55 -07:00
parent 36423a5ed5
commit 297c5eee37
4 changed files with 28 additions and 9 deletions
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kernel/fork.c
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@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ out:
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
{
struct vm_area_struct *mpnt, *tmp, **pprev;
struct vm_area_struct *mpnt, *tmp, *prev, **pprev;
struct rb_node **rb_link, *rb_parent;
int retval;
unsigned long charge;
@@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
if (retval)
goto out;
prev = NULL;
for (mpnt = oldmm->mmap; mpnt; mpnt = mpnt->vm_next) {
struct file *file;
@@ -359,7 +360,7 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
goto fail_nomem_anon_vma_fork;
tmp->vm_flags &= ~VM_LOCKED;
tmp->vm_mm = mm;
tmp->vm_next = NULL;
tmp->vm_next = tmp->vm_prev = NULL;
file = tmp->vm_file;
if (file) {
struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
@@ -392,6 +393,8 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
*/
*pprev = tmp;
pprev = &tmp->vm_next;
tmp->vm_prev = prev;
prev = tmp;
__vma_link_rb(mm, tmp, rb_link, rb_parent);
rb_link = &tmp->vm_rb.rb_right;