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authorDavid Howells2010-01-15 17:01:33 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2010-01-16 12:15:40 -0800
commit1e2ae599d37e60958c03ca5e46b1f657619a30cd (patch)
tree0a0c9ff0370fbefd4eb8fe3a44106880c1aae8cb /include/linux
parented5e5894b234ce4793d78078c026915b853e0678 (diff)
nommu: struct vm_region's vm_usage count need not be atomic
The vm_usage count field in struct vm_region does not need to be atomic as it's only even modified whilst nommu_region_sem is write locked. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 84d020bed083..80cfa78a8cf6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ struct vm_region {
unsigned long vm_pgoff; /* the offset in vm_file corresponding to vm_start */
struct file *vm_file; /* the backing file or NULL */
- atomic_t vm_usage; /* region usage count */
+ int vm_usage; /* region usage count (access under nommu_region_sem) */
bool vm_icache_flushed : 1; /* true if the icache has been flushed for
* this region */
};