1. 30 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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      mm/fs: route MADV_REMOVE to FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE · 3f31d075
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      Now tmpfs supports hole-punching via fallocate(), switch madvise_remove()
      to use do_fallocate() instead of vmtruncate_range(): which extends
      madvise(,,MADV_REMOVE) support from tmpfs to ext4, ocfs2 and xfs.
      
      There is one more user of vmtruncate_range() in our tree,
      staging/android's ashmem_shrink(): convert it to use do_fallocate() too
      (but if its unpinned areas are already unmapped - I don't know - then it
      would do better to use shmem_truncate_range() directly).
      Based-on-patch-by: NCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
      Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
      Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>
      Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3f31d075
  2. 24 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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      coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP · accb61fe
      Jason Baron 提交于
      Since we no longer need the VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag, let's use the freed bit
      for 'VM_NODUMP' flag.  The idea is is to add a new madvise() flag:
      MADV_DONTDUMP, which can be set by applications to specifically request
      memory regions which should not dump core.
      
      The specific application I have in mind is qemu: we can add a flag there
      that wouldn't dump all of guest memory when qemu dumps core.  This flag
      might also be useful for security sensitive apps that want to absolutely
      make sure that parts of memory are not dumped.  To clear the flag use:
      MADV_DODUMP.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/MADV_NODUMP/MADV_DONTDUMP/, s/MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP/MADV_DODUMP/, per Roland]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up the architectures which broke]
      Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      accb61fe
  3. 04 1月, 2012 1 次提交
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      HWPOISON: Clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure() · cd42f4a3
      Tony Luck 提交于
      There is only one caller of memory_failure(), all other users call
      __memory_failure() and pass in the flags argument explicitly. The
      lone user of memory_failure() will soon need to pass flags too.
      
      Add flags argument to the callsite in mce.c. Delete the old memory_failure()
      function, and then rename __memory_failure() without the leading "__".
      
      Provide clearer message when action optional memory errors are ignored.
      Acked-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      cd42f4a3
  4. 21 7月, 2011 1 次提交
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      fs: kill i_alloc_sem · bd5fe6c5
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      i_alloc_sem is a rather special rw_semaphore.  It's the last one that may
      be released by a non-owner, and it's write side is always mirrored by
      real exclusion.  It's intended use it to wait for all pending direct I/O
      requests to finish before starting a truncate.
      
      Replace it with a hand-grown construct:
      
       - exclusion for truncates is already guaranteed by i_mutex, so it can
         simply fall way
       - the reader side is replaced by an i_dio_count member in struct inode
         that counts the number of pending direct I/O requests.  Truncate can't
         proceed as long as it's non-zero
       - when i_dio_count reaches non-zero we wake up a pending truncate using
         wake_up_bit on a new bit in i_flags
       - new references to i_dio_count can't appear while we are waiting for
         it to read zero because the direct I/O count always needs i_mutex
         (or an equivalent like XFS's i_iolock) for starting a new operation.
      
      This scheme is much simpler, and saves the space of a spinlock_t and a
      struct list_head in struct inode (typically 160 bits on a non-debug 64-bit
      system).
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      bd5fe6c5
  5. 14 1月, 2011 3 次提交
  6. 16 12月, 2009 4 次提交
  7. 22 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      ksm: the mm interface to ksm · f8af4da3
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for
      better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later.
      
      When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and
      MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than
      pretending that they can be serviced.  But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them
      even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not
      touch (e.g.  hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings).
      
      Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the
      range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory.
      
      Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try
      merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it.
      Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain
      VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting.
      
      Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIzik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f8af4da3
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      ksm: first tidy up madvise_vma() · 3866ea90
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      madvise.c has several levels of switch statements, what to do in which?
      Move MADV_DOFORK code down from madvise_vma() to madvise_behavior(), so
      madvise_vma() can be a simple router, to madvise_behavior() by default.
      
      vma->vm_flags is an unsigned long so use the same type for new_flags.  Add
      missing comment lines to describe MADV_DONTFORK and MADV_DOFORK.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIzik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3866ea90
  8. 16 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4 · 9893e49d
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      Impact: optional, useful for debugging
      
      Add a new madvice sub command to inject poison for some
      pages in a process' address space.  This is useful for
      testing the poison page handling.
      
      This patch can allow root to tie up large amounts of memory.
      I got feedback from container developers and they didn't see any
      problem.
      
      v2: Use write flag for get_user_pages to make sure to always get
      a fresh page
      v3: Don't request write mapping (Fengguang Wu)
      v4: Move MADV_* number to avoid conflict with KSM (Hugh Dickins)
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      9893e49d
  9. 17 6月, 2009 2 次提交
  10. 13 5月, 2009 1 次提交
  11. 06 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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      Ignore madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) for hugetlbfs-backed regions · a425a638
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) forces page cache readahead on a range of memory
      backed by a file.  The assumption is made that the page required is
      order-0 and "normal" page cache.
      
      On hugetlbfs, this assumption is not true and order-0 pages are
      allocated and inserted into the hugetlbfs page cache.  This leaks
      hugetlbfs page reservations and can cause BUGs to trigger related to
      corrupted page tables.
      
      This patch causes MADV_WILLNEED to be ignored for hugetlbfs-backed
      regions.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a425a638
  12. 14 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  13. 31 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  14. 28 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  15. 17 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  16. 22 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Detach sched.h from mm.h · e8edc6e0
      Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
      First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
      function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
      mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.
      
      This patch
      a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
      b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
      c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
      d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
      e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
         getting them indirectly
      
      Net result is:
      a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
         they don't need sched.h
      b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
         on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
         after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).
      
      Cross-compile tested on
      
      	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
      	alpha alpha-up
      	arm
      	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
      	ia64 ia64-up
      	m68k
      	mips
      	parisc parisc-up
      	powerpc powerpc-up
      	s390 s390-up
      	sparc sparc-up
      	sparc64 sparc64-up
      	um-x86_64
      	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig
      
      as well as my two usual configs.
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e8edc6e0
  17. 08 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  18. 29 3月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] holepunch: fix mmap_sem i_mutex deadlock · 90ed52eb
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      sys_madvise has down_write of mmap_sem, then madvise_remove calls
      vmtruncate_range which takes i_mutex and i_alloc_sem: no, we can easily devise
      deadlocks from that ordering.
      
      madvise_remove drop mmap_sem while calling vmtruncate_range: luckily, since
      madvise_remove doesn't split or merge vmas, it's easy to handle this case with
      a NULL prev, without restructuring sys_madvise.  (Though sad to retake
      mmap_sem when it's unlikely to be needed, and certainly down_read is
      sufficient for MADV_REMOVE, unlike the other madvices.)
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      90ed52eb
  19. 17 3月, 2007 1 次提交
  20. 18 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  21. 15 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK · f8225661
      Michael S. Tsirkin 提交于
      Currently, copy-on-write may change the physical address of a page even if the
      user requested that the page is pinned in memory (either by mlock or by
      get_user_pages).  This happens if the process forks meanwhile, and the parent
      writes to that page.  As a result, the page is orphaned: in case of
      get_user_pages, the application will never see any data hardware DMA's into
      this page after the COW.  In case of mlock'd memory, the parent is not getting
      the realtime/security benefits of mlock.
      
      In particular, this affects the Infiniband modules which do DMA from and into
      user pages all the time.
      
      This patch adds madvise options to control whether memory range is inherited
      across fork.  Useful e.g.  for when hardware is doing DMA from/into these
      pages.  Could also be useful to an application wanting to speed up its forks
      by cutting large areas out of consideration.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
      Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f8225661
  22. 07 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing store · f6b3ec23
      Badari Pulavarty 提交于
      Here is the patch to implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE) - which frees up a
      given range of pages & its associated backing store.  Current
      implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return
      -ENOSYS.
      
      "Some app allocates large tmpfs files, then when some task quits and some
      client disconnect, some memory can be released.  However the only way to
      release tmpfs-swap is to MADV_REMOVE". - Andrea Arcangeli
      
      Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their bufferpool
      (shared memory segments) - without writing back to disk/swap space.
      
      This feature is also useful for supporting hot-plug memory on UML.
      
      Concerns raised by Andrew Morton:
      
      - "We have no plan for holepunching!  If we _do_ have such a plan (or
        might in the future) then what would the API look like?  I think
        sys_holepunch(fd, start, len), so we should start out with that."
      
      - Using madvise is very weird, because people will ask "why do I need to
        mmap my file before I can stick a hole in it?"
      
      - None of the other madvise operations call into the filesystem in this
        manner.  A broad question is: is this capability an MM operation or a
        filesytem operation?  truncate, for example, is a filesystem operation
        which sometimes has MM side-effects.  madvise is an mm operation and with
        this patch, it gains FS side-effects, only they're really, really
        significant ones."
      
      Comments:
      
      - Andrea suggested the fs operation too but then it's more efficient to
        have it as a mm operation with fs side effects, because they don't
        immediatly know fd and physical offset of the range.  It's possible to
        fixup in userland and to use the fs operation but it's more expensive,
        the vmas are already in the kernel and we can use them.
      
      Short term plan &  Future Direction:
      
      - We seem to need this interface only for shmfs/tmpfs files in the short
        term.  We have to add hooks into the filesystem for correctness and
        completeness.  This is what this patch does.
      
      - In the future, plan is to support both fs and mmap apis also.  This
        also involves (other) filesystem specific functions to be implemented.
      
      - Current patch doesn't support VM_NONLINEAR - which can be addressed in
        the future.
      Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f6b3ec23
  23. 29 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logic · 6aab341e
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very
      explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP.  It allows a
      VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM
      never touches, and never considers to be normal pages.
      
      Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new
      functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or
      indeed mark them any other way.  It just works.  As a side effect, doing
      mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges.
      
      Sparc update from David in the next commit.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6aab341e
  24. 23 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED · 0b14c179
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      Although we tend to associate VM_RESERVED with remap_pfn_range, quite a few
      drivers set VM_RESERVED on areas which are then populated by nopage.  The
      PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 changed VM_RESERVED not to free pages in
      zap_pte_range, without changing those drivers not to set it: so their pages
      just leak away.
      
      Let's not change miscellaneous drivers now: introduce VM_UNPAGED at the core,
      to flag the special areas where the ptes may have no struct page, or if they
      have then it's not to be touched.  Replace most instances of VM_RESERVED in
      core mm by VM_UNPAGED.  Force it on in remap_pfn_range, and the sparc and
      sparc64 io_remap_pfn_range.
      
      Revert addition of VM_RESERVED to powerpc vdso, it's not needed there.  Is it
      needed anywhere?  It still governs the mm->reserved_vm statistic, and special
      vmas not to be merged, and areas not to be core dumped; but could probably be
      eliminated later (the drivers are probably specifying it because in 2.4 it
      kept swapout off the vma, but in 2.6 we work from the LRU, which these pages
      don't get on).
      
      Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no
      purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Acked-by: NWilliam Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      0b14c179
  25. 30 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] core remove PageReserved · b5810039
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Remove PageReserved() calls from core code by tightening VM_RESERVED
      handling in mm/ to cover PageReserved functionality.
      
      PageReserved special casing is removed from get_page and put_page.
      
      All setting and clearing of PageReserved is retained, and it is now flagged
      in the page_alloc checks to help ensure we don't introduce any refcount
      based freeing of Reserved pages.
      
      MAP_PRIVATE, PROT_WRITE of VM_RESERVED regions is tentatively being
      deprecated.  We never completely handled it correctly anyway, and is be
      reintroduced in future if required (Hugh has a proof of concept).
      
      Once PageReserved() calls are removed from kernel/power/swsusp.c, and all
      arch/ and driver code, the Set and Clear calls, and the PG_reserved bit can
      be trivially removed.
      
      Last real user of PageReserved is swsusp, which uses PageReserved to
      determine whether a struct page points to valid memory or not.  This still
      needs to be addressed (a generic page_is_ram() should work).
      
      A last caveat: the ZERO_PAGE is now refcounted and managed with rmap (and
      thus mapcounted and count towards shared rss).  These writes to the struct
      page could cause excessive cacheline bouncing on big systems.  There are a
      number of ways this could be addressed if it is an issue.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      
      Refcount bug fix for filemap_xip.c
      Signed-off-by: NCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b5810039
  26. 12 10月, 2005 1 次提交
  27. 05 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] mm: fix madvise vma merging · 836d5ffd
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      Better late than never, I've at last reviewed the madvise vma merging
      going into 2.6.13.  Remove a pointless check and fix two little bugs -
      a simple test (with /proc/<pid>/maps hacked to show ReadHints) showed
      both mismerges in practice: though being madvise, neither was disastrous.
      
      1. Correct placement of the success label in madvise_behavior: as in
         mprotect_fixup and mlock_fixup, it is necessary to update vm_flags
         when vma_merge succeeds (to handle the exceptional Case 8 noted in
         the comments above vma_merge itself).
      
      2. Correct initial value of prev when starting part way into a vma: as
         in sys_mprotect and do_mlock, it needs to be set to vma in this case
         (vma_merge handles only that minimum of cases shown in its comments).
      
      3. If find_vma_prev sets prev, then the vma it returns is prev->vm_next,
         so it's pointless to make that same assignment again in sys_madvise.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      836d5ffd
  28. 28 7月, 2005 1 次提交
  29. 24 6月, 2005 2 次提交
  30. 22 6月, 2005 2 次提交
  31. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4