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Commit 76545066 authored by Rik van Riel's avatar Rik van Riel Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root



KSM reference counts can cause an anon_vma to exist after the processe it
belongs to have already exited.  Because the anon_vma lock now lives in
the root anon_vma, we need to ensure that the root anon_vma stays around
until after all the "child" anon_vmas have been freed.

The obvious way to do this is to have a "child" anon_vma take a reference
to the root in anon_vma_fork.  When the anon_vma is freed at munmap or
process exit, we drop the refcount in anon_vma_unlink and possibly free
the root anon_vma.

The KSM anon_vma reference count function also needs to be modified to
deal with the possibility of freeing 2 levels of anon_vma.  The easiest
way to do this is to break out the KSM magic and make it generic.

When compiling without CONFIG_KSM, this code is compiled out.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarLarry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLarry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: default avatarDave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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