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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index fd1e85b4b48a..6a4914bc1a38 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -735,6 +735,30 @@ static inline bool vma_start_read(struct vm_area_struct *vma) return true; } +/* + * Use only while holding mmap read lock which guarantees that locking will not + * fail (nobody can concurrently write-lock the vma). vma_start_read() should + * not be used in such cases because it might fail due to mm_lock_seq overflow. + * This functionality is used to obtain vma read lock and drop the mmap read lock. + */ +static inline void vma_start_read_locked_nested(struct vm_area_struct *vma, int subclass) +{ + mmap_assert_locked(vma->vm_mm); + down_read_nested(&vma->vm_lock->lock, subclass); +} + +/* + * Use only while holding mmap read lock which guarantees that locking will not + * fail (nobody can concurrently write-lock the vma). vma_start_read() should + * not be used in such cases because it might fail due to mm_lock_seq overflow. + * This functionality is used to obtain vma read lock and drop the mmap read lock. + */ +static inline void vma_start_read_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma) +{ + mmap_assert_locked(vma->vm_mm); + down_read(&vma->vm_lock->lock); +} + static inline void vma_end_read(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { rcu_read_lock(); /* keeps vma alive till the end of up_read */ |