History log of /arch/blackfin/include/asm/mmu.h
Revision Date Author Comments
96f1050d3df105c9ae6c6ac224f370199ea82fcd 24-Sep-2009 Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com> Blackfin: mass clean up of copyright/licensing info

Bill Gatliff & David Brownell pointed out we were missing some
copyrights, and licensing terms in some of the files in
./arch/blackfin, so this fixes things, and cleans them up.

It also removes:
- verbose GPL text(refer to the top level ./COPYING file)
- file names (you are looking at the file)
- bug url (it's in the ./MAINTAINERS file)
- "or later" on GPL-2, when we did not have that right

It also allows some Blackfin-specific assembly files to be under a BSD
like license (for people to use them outside of Linux).

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
8feae13110d60cc6287afabc2887366b0eb226c2 08-Jan-2009 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux

Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux. This solves two problems:

(1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of
shmat's (and forks) done.

(2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an
exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact
that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another
process or a dead process.

A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember
the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure
is discarded as it's no longer required.

This patch makes the following additional changes:

(1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and
with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite. Instead,
each page has a reference on it held by the region. Anything else that is
interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it.
When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to
put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero.

(2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be
made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages.

(3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists. As an MM may
end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is
appended to the sort key.

(4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list.

(5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of
the backing region. The VMA and region structs will be split if
necessary.

(6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory
segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss. Multiple
shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different
virtual addresses as under MMU-mode.

(7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode.

(8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits
that aren't actually mapped anywhere.

(9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount
of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be
mapped directly. These are copies of the backing device or file if not
anonymous.

These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode. The downside is that
NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this
patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
639f6571458948b5112be2cf00c0c2c04db2897d 27-Aug-2008 Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Blackfin arch: move include/asm-blackfin header files to arch/blackfin

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>