nommu: remove a superfluous check of vm_region::vm_usage
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:01:34 +0000 (17:01 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:15:40 +0000 (12:15 -0800)
In split_vma(), there's no need to check if the VMA being split has a
region that's in use by more than one VMA because:

 (1) The preceding test prohibits splitting of non-anonymous VMAs and regions
     (eg: file or chardev backed VMAs).

 (2) Anonymous regions can't be mapped multiple times because there's no handle
     by which to refer to the already existing region.

 (3) If a VMA has previously been split, then the region backing it has also
     been split into two regions, each of usage 1.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/nommu.c

index 5e39294f8ea8d23a8417d75edae782065b29d9c7..d6dd656264a235ab90c1d1004e932bdfa369813e 100644 (file)
@@ -1441,10 +1441,9 @@ int split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
        kenter("");
 
-       /* we're only permitted to split anonymous regions that have a single
-        * owner */
-       if (vma->vm_file ||
-           vma->vm_region->vm_usage != 1)
+       /* we're only permitted to split anonymous regions (these should have
+        * only a single usage on the region) */
+       if (vma->vm_file)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
        if (mm->map_count >= sysctl_max_map_count)