Stop playing silly games with the VM_ACCOUNT flag

The mmap_region() code would temporarily set the VM_ACCOUNT flag for
anonymous shared mappings just to inform shmem_zero_setup() that it
should enable accounting for the resulting shm object.  It would then
clear the flag after calling ->mmap (for the /dev/zero case) or doing
shmem_zero_setup() (for the MAP_ANON case).

This just resulted in vma merge issues, but also made for just
unnecessary confusion.  Use the already-existing VM_NORESERVE flag for
this instead, and let shmem_{zero|file}_setup() just figure it out from
that.

This also happens to make it obvious that the new DRI2 GEM layer uses a
non-reserving backing store for its object allocation - which is quite
possibly not intentional.  But since I didn't want to change semantics
in this patch, I left it alone, and just updated the caller to use the
new flag semantics.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 5d0de96..19d566c 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2628,7 +2628,7 @@ struct file *shmem_file_setup(char *name, loff_t size, unsigned long flags)
 		goto close_file;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM
-	SHMEM_I(inode)->flags = flags & VM_ACCOUNT;
+	SHMEM_I(inode)->flags = (flags & VM_NORESERVE) ? 0 : VM_ACCOUNT;
 #endif
 	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 	inode->i_size = size;