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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2013-09-11 14:20:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-11 15:57:00 -0700
commitef0855d334e1e4af7c3e0c42146a8479ea14a5ab (patch)
tree5955b0424bb392e1949acc0ad5066cb461bef867 /kernel/fork.c
parentc07303c0af38ffb1e5fd9b5ff37d0798298a7acf (diff)
downloadlinux-ef0855d334e1e4af7c3e0c42146a8479ea14a5ab.tar.gz
mm: mempolicy: turn vma_set_policy() into vma_dup_policy()
Simple cleanup.  Every user of vma_set_policy() does the same work, this
looks a bit annoying imho.  And the new trivial helper which does
mpol_dup() + vma_set_policy() to simplify the callers.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 84703db06cf3..81ccb4f010c2 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -351,7 +351,6 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
 	struct rb_node **rb_link, *rb_parent;
 	int retval;
 	unsigned long charge;
-	struct mempolicy *pol;
 
 	uprobe_start_dup_mmap();
 	down_write(&oldmm->mmap_sem);
@@ -400,11 +399,9 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
 			goto fail_nomem;
 		*tmp = *mpnt;
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tmp->anon_vma_chain);
-		pol = mpol_dup(vma_policy(mpnt));
-		retval = PTR_ERR(pol);
-		if (IS_ERR(pol))
+		retval = vma_dup_policy(mpnt, tmp);
+		if (retval)
 			goto fail_nomem_policy;
-		vma_set_policy(tmp, pol);
 		tmp->vm_mm = mm;
 		if (anon_vma_fork(tmp, mpnt))
 			goto fail_nomem_anon_vma_fork;
@@ -472,7 +469,7 @@ out:
 	uprobe_end_dup_mmap();
 	return retval;
 fail_nomem_anon_vma_fork:
-	mpol_put(pol);
+	mpol_put(vma_policy(tmp));
 fail_nomem_policy:
 	kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, tmp);
 fail_nomem: