mm: make the vma list be doubly linked
It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards
in it to find the previous vma. So rather than have to look up the
previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it
doubly linked instead.
Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 856eac3..b7e9d60 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
{
- struct vm_area_struct *mpnt, *tmp, **pprev;
+ struct vm_area_struct *mpnt, *tmp, *prev, **pprev;
struct rb_node **rb_link, *rb_parent;
int retval;
unsigned long charge;
@@ -328,6 +328,7 @@
if (retval)
goto out;
+ prev = NULL;
for (mpnt = oldmm->mmap; mpnt; mpnt = mpnt->vm_next) {
struct file *file;
@@ -359,7 +360,7 @@
goto fail_nomem_anon_vma_fork;
tmp->vm_flags &= ~VM_LOCKED;
tmp->vm_mm = mm;
- tmp->vm_next = NULL;
+ tmp->vm_next = tmp->vm_prev = NULL;
file = tmp->vm_file;
if (file) {
struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
@@ -392,6 +393,8 @@
*/
*pprev = tmp;
pprev = &tmp->vm_next;
+ tmp->vm_prev = prev;
+ prev = tmp;
__vma_link_rb(mm, tmp, rb_link, rb_parent);
rb_link = &tmp->vm_rb.rb_right;