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mm: tiny-shmem nommu fix

The previous patch db203d53d474aa068984e409d807628f5841da1b ("mm:
tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex") to fix the lock
ordering in tiny-shmem breaks shared anonymous and IPC memory on NOMMU
architectures because it was using the expanding truncate to signal ramfs
to allocate a physically contiguous RAM backing the inode (otherwise it is
unusable for "memory mapping" it to userspace).

However do_truncate is what caused the lock ordering error, due to it
taking i_mutex.  In this case, we can actually just call ramfs directly to
allocate memory for the mapping, rather than go via truncate.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nick Piggin 16 years ago
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4b19de6d1c
3 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 1 1
      fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
  2. 1 0
      include/linux/ramfs.h
  3. 6 0
      mm/tiny-shmem.c

+ 1 - 1
fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ const struct inode_operations ramfs_file_inode_operations = {
  * size 0 on the assumption that it's going to be used for an mmap of shared
  * memory
  */
-static int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize)
+int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize)
 {
 	struct pagevec lru_pvec;
 	unsigned long npages, xpages, loop, limit;

+ 1 - 0
include/linux/ramfs.h

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ extern int ramfs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 	 int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data, struct vfsmount *mnt);
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+extern int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize);
 extern unsigned long ramfs_nommu_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file,
 						   unsigned long addr,
 						   unsigned long len,

+ 6 - 0
mm/tiny-shmem.c

@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ struct file *shmem_file_setup(char *name, loff_t size, unsigned long flags)
 	inode->i_nlink = 0;	/* It is unlinked */
 	init_file(file, shm_mnt, dentry, FMODE_WRITE | FMODE_READ,
 			&ramfs_file_operations);
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+	error = ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(inode, size);
+	if (error)
+		goto close_file;
+#endif
 	return file;
 
 close_file: