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-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pagemap.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rmap.h8
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 6e695eaab4c..866a3dbe5c7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1104,6 +1104,9 @@ extern struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **,
unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, pgoff_t pgoff);
extern void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *);
+extern int mm_take_all_locks(struct mm_struct *mm);
+extern void mm_drop_all_locks(struct mm_struct *mm);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
/* From fs/proc/base.c. callers must _not_ hold the mm's exe_file_lock */
extern void added_exe_file_vma(struct mm_struct *mm);
diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index a81d8189042..a39b38ccdc9 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
*/
#define AS_EIO (__GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 0) /* IO error on async write */
#define AS_ENOSPC (__GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 1) /* ENOSPC on async write */
+#define AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS (__GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 2) /* under mm_take_all_locks() */
static inline void mapping_set_error(struct address_space *mapping, int error)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h
index 1383692ac5b..69407f85e10 100644
--- a/include/linux/rmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@
*/
struct anon_vma {
spinlock_t lock; /* Serialize access to vma list */
+ /*
+ * NOTE: the LSB of the head.next is set by
+ * mm_take_all_locks() _after_ taking the above lock. So the
+ * head must only be read/written after taking the above lock
+ * to be sure to see a valid next pointer. The LSB bit itself
+ * is serialized by a system wide lock only visible to
+ * mm_take_all_locks() (mm_all_locks_mutex).
+ */
struct list_head head; /* List of private "related" vmas */
};