tmpfs/ramfs: fix VM_MAYSHARE mappings for NOMMU
authorRich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Fri, 20 May 2016 23:57:47 +0000 (16:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 21 May 2016 00:58:30 +0000 (17:58 -0700)
commit63678c32e209bd165f33432bbed72b2954ce5ae4
tree8e94976dbe50b78ca23292fe9cf5d69c580e3170
parentf4fcd55841fc9e46daac553b39361572453c2b88
tmpfs/ramfs: fix VM_MAYSHARE mappings for NOMMU

The nommu do_mmap expects f_op->get_unmapped_area to either succeed or
return -ENOSYS for VM_MAYSHARE (e.g. private read-only) mappings.
Returning addr in the non-MAP_SHARED case was completely wrong, and only
happened to work because addr was 0.  However, it prevented VM_MAYSHARE
mappings from sharing backing with the fs cache, and forced such
mappings (including shareable program text) to be copied whenever the
number of mappings transitioned from 0 to 1, impacting performance and
memory usage.  Subsequent mappings beyond the first still correctly
shared memory with the first.

Instead, treat VM_MAYSHARE identically to VM_SHARED at the file ops level;
do_mmap already handles the semantic differences between them.

Signed-off-by: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c