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Revision 9be34c9d526c305efb332ad53460b57d5f8edb3e authored by Linus Torvalds on 16 June 2011, 07:35:09 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 16 June 2011, 07:35:09 UTC 
mm: get rid of the most spurious find_vma_prev() users
 
We have some users of this function that date back to before the vma
list was doubly linked, and just are silly.  These days, you can find
the previous vma by just following the vma->vm_prev pointer.

In some cases you don't need any find_vma() lookup at all, and in other
cases you're better off with the regular "find_vma()" that uses the vma
cache front-end lookup.

Some "find_vma_prev()" users are still valid, though.  For example, in
the case of a stack that grows up, it can be the case that we don't find
any 'vma' at all (because we're looking up an address that is past the
last vma), and that the stack that we want to grow is the 'prev' vma.

But that kind of special case aside, we generally should prefer to use
'find_vma()'.

Noticed due to a totally unrelated POWER memory corruption bug that just
happened to hit in 'find_vma_prev()' and made me go "Hmm - why are we
using that function here?".

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 9be34c9d526c305efb332ad53460b57d5f8edb3e authored by Linus Torvalds on 16 June 2011, 07:35:09 UTC
mm: get rid of the most spurious find_vma_prev() users
Tip revision: 9be34c9
Kbuild 
#
# Kbuild for top-level directory of the kernel
# This file takes care of the following:
# 1) Generate bounds.h
# 2) Generate asm-offsets.h (may need bounds.h)
# 3) Check for missing system calls

#####
# 1) Generate bounds.h

bounds-file := include/generated/bounds.h

always  := $(bounds-file)
targets := $(bounds-file) kernel/bounds.s

quiet_cmd_bounds = GEN     $@
define cmd_bounds
	(set -e; \
	 echo "#ifndef __LINUX_BOUNDS_H__"; \
	 echo "#define __LINUX_BOUNDS_H__"; \
	 echo "/*"; \
	 echo " * DO NOT MODIFY."; \
	 echo " *"; \
	 echo " * This file was generated by Kbuild"; \
	 echo " *"; \
	 echo " */"; \
	 echo ""; \
	 sed -ne $(sed-y) $<; \
	 echo ""; \
	 echo "#endif" ) > $@
endef

# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
kernel/bounds.s: kernel/bounds.c FORCE
	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)

$(obj)/$(bounds-file): kernel/bounds.s Kbuild
	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(call cmd,bounds)

#####
# 2) Generate asm-offsets.h
#

offsets-file := include/generated/asm-offsets.h

always  += $(offsets-file)
targets += $(offsets-file)
targets += arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s


# Default sed regexp - multiline due to syntax constraints
define sed-y
	"/^->/{s:->#\(.*\):/* \1 */:; \
	s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([-0-9]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:; \
	s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([^ ]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:; \
	s:->::; p;}"
endef

quiet_cmd_offsets = GEN     $@
define cmd_offsets
	(set -e; \
	 echo "#ifndef __ASM_OFFSETS_H__"; \
	 echo "#define __ASM_OFFSETS_H__"; \
	 echo "/*"; \
	 echo " * DO NOT MODIFY."; \
	 echo " *"; \
	 echo " * This file was generated by Kbuild"; \
	 echo " *"; \
	 echo " */"; \
	 echo ""; \
	 sed -ne $(sed-y) $<; \
	 echo ""; \
	 echo "#endif" ) > $@
endef

# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s: arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.c \
                                      $(obj)/$(bounds-file) FORCE
	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)

$(obj)/$(offsets-file): arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s Kbuild
	$(call cmd,offsets)

#####
# 3) Check for missing system calls
#

quiet_cmd_syscalls = CALL    $<
      cmd_syscalls = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(CC) $(c_flags)

PHONY += missing-syscalls
missing-syscalls: scripts/checksyscalls.sh FORCE
	$(call cmd,syscalls)

# Keep these two files during make clean
no-clean-files := $(bounds-file) $(offsets-file)
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