From 779c10232ceb11c1b259232c4845cfb2850287b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:01:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] nommu: remove a superfluous check of vm_region::vm_usage 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 Acked-by: Al Viro Cc: Greg Ungerer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/nommu.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c index 5e39294f8ea8..d6dd656264a2 100644 --- a/mm/nommu.c +++ b/mm/nommu.c @@ -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)