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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-04-14 13:18:27 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-04-14 13:19:04 +0200
commit6ac1ef482d7ae0c690f1640bf6eb818ff9a2d91e (patch)
tree021cc9f6b477146fcebe6f3be4752abfa2ba18a9 /mm/util.c
parent682968e0c425c60f0dde37977e5beb2b12ddc4cc (diff)
parenta385ec4f11bdcf81af094c03e2444ee9b7fad2e5 (diff)
Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/uprobes
Merge in latest upstream (and the latest perf development tree), to prepare for tooling changes, and also to pick up v3.4 MM changes that the uprobes code needs to take care of. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
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1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 136ac4f322b..ae962b31de8 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -239,6 +239,47 @@ void __vma_link_list(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
next->vm_prev = vma;
}
+/* Check if the vma is being used as a stack by this task */
+static int vm_is_stack_for_task(struct task_struct *t,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ return (vma->vm_start <= KSTK_ESP(t) && vma->vm_end >= KSTK_ESP(t));
+}
+
+/*
+ * Check if the vma is being used as a stack.
+ * If is_group is non-zero, check in the entire thread group or else
+ * just check in the current task. Returns the pid of the task that
+ * the vma is stack for.
+ */
+pid_t vm_is_stack(struct task_struct *task,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma, int in_group)
+{
+ pid_t ret = 0;
+
+ if (vm_is_stack_for_task(task, vma))
+ return task->pid;
+
+ if (in_group) {
+ struct task_struct *t;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!pid_alive(task))
+ goto done;
+
+ t = task;
+ do {
+ if (vm_is_stack_for_task(t, vma)) {
+ ret = t->pid;
+ goto done;
+ }
+ } while_each_thread(task, t);
+done:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
#if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && !defined(HAVE_ARCH_PICK_MMAP_LAYOUT)
void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm)
{