From 4b19de6d1cb07c8bcb6778e771f9cfd5bcfdfd3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:50:16 -0700 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/ramfs') diff --git a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c index 52312ec93ff4..5145cb9125af 100644 --- a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c +++ b/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; -- cgit v1.2.2