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mm: drop support of non-linear mapping from fault codepath

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We don't create non-linear mappings anymore.  Let's drop code which
handles them on page fault.

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 14:09:51 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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include/linux/mm.h
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@ -206,21 +206,19 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
extern pgprot_t protection_map[16];
#define FAULT_FLAG_WRITE 0x01 /* Fault was a write access */
#define FAULT_FLAG_NONLINEAR 0x02 /* Fault was via a nonlinear mapping */
#define FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE 0x04 /* Fault was mkwrite of existing pte */
#define FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY 0x08 /* Retry fault if blocking */
#define FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT 0x10 /* Don't drop mmap_sem and wait when retrying */
#define FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE 0x20 /* The fault task is in SIGKILL killable region */
#define FAULT_FLAG_TRIED 0x40 /* second try */
#define FAULT_FLAG_USER 0x80 /* The fault originated in userspace */
#define FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE 0x02 /* Fault was mkwrite of existing pte */
#define FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY 0x04 /* Retry fault if blocking */
#define FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT 0x08 /* Don't drop mmap_sem and wait when retrying */
#define FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE 0x10 /* The fault task is in SIGKILL killable region */
#define FAULT_FLAG_TRIED 0x20 /* Second try */
#define FAULT_FLAG_USER 0x40 /* The fault originated in userspace */
/*
* vm_fault is filled by the the pagefault handler and passed to the vma's
* ->fault function. The vma's ->fault is responsible for returning a bitmask
* of VM_FAULT_xxx flags that give details about how the fault was handled.
*
* pgoff should be used in favour of virtual_address, if possible. If pgoff
* is used, one may implement ->remap_pages to get nonlinear mapping support.
* pgoff should be used in favour of virtual_address, if possible.
*/
struct vm_fault {
unsigned int flags; /* FAULT_FLAG_xxx flags */