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authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>2011-01-13 23:46:11 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-14 01:32:36 (GMT)
commit110d74a921f4d272b47ef6104fcf937df808f4c8 (patch)
treea2f1705e049f06e1cf8cbaf7d6b3261f0b46b6ab /include/linux/mm.h
parentfed067da46ad3b9acedaf794a5f05d0bc153280b (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-110d74a921f4d272b47ef6104fcf937df808f4c8.tar.xz
mm: add FOLL_MLOCK follow_page flag.
Move the code to mlock pages from __mlock_vma_pages_range() to follow_page(). This allows __mlock_vma_pages_range() to not have to break down work into 16-page batches. An additional motivation for doing this within the present patch series is that it'll make it easier for a later chagne to drop mmap_sem when blocking on disk (we'd like to be able to resume at the page that was read from disk instead of at the start of a 16-page batch). Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 721f451..9ade803 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1415,6 +1415,7 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long address,
#define FOLL_GET 0x04 /* do get_page on page */
#define FOLL_DUMP 0x08 /* give error on hole if it would be zero */
#define FOLL_FORCE 0x10 /* get_user_pages read/write w/o permission */
+#define FOLL_MLOCK 0x40 /* mark page as mlocked */
typedef int (*pte_fn_t)(pte_t *pte, pgtable_t token, unsigned long addr,
void *data);