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

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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 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 8a5f14a231
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@ -1146,7 +1146,6 @@ extern void user_shm_unlock(size_t, struct user_struct *);
* Parameter block passed down to zap_pte_range in exceptional cases.
*/
struct zap_details {
struct vm_area_struct *nonlinear_vma; /* Check page->index if set */
struct address_space *check_mapping; /* Check page->mapping if set */
pgoff_t first_index; /* Lowest page->index to unmap */
pgoff_t last_index; /* Highest page->index to unmap */