Make sure we copy pages inserted with "vm_insert_page()" on fork

The logic that decides that a fork() might be able to avoid copying a VM
area when it can be re-created by page faults didn't know about the new
vm_insert_page() case.

Also make some things a bit more anal wrt VM_PFNMAP.

Pointed out by Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds
2005-12-16 10:21:23 -08:00
parent 281ab031a8
commit 4d7672b462
4 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end);
* If the vma has a ->close operation then the driver probably needs to release
* per-vma resources, so we don't attempt to merge those.
*/
#define VM_SPECIAL (VM_IO | VM_DONTCOPY | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_RESERVED)
#define VM_SPECIAL (VM_IO | VM_DONTCOPY | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_RESERVED | VM_PFNMAP)
static inline int is_mergeable_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct file *file, unsigned long vm_flags)