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authorEric B Munson2015-11-05 18:51:33 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2015-11-05 19:34:48 -0800
commita8ca5d0ecbdde5cc3d7accacbd69968b0c98764e (patch)
treed2f49d50d2fc30d86c364909a7095c752dfd5e4d /mm
parent1aab92ec3de552362397b718744872ea2d17add2 (diff)
mm: mlock: add new mlock system call
With the refactored mlock code, introduce a new system call for mlock. The new call will allow the user to specify what lock states are being added. mlock2 is trivial at the moment, but a follow on patch will add a new mlock state making it useful. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/mlock.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index fbd8c03f7b37..35dcf8fa7195 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -644,6 +644,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(mlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
return do_mlock(start, len, VM_LOCKED);
}
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mlock2, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags)
+{
+ if (flags)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ return do_mlock(start, len, VM_LOCKED);
+}
+
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
{
int ret;