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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-06-07 15:05:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-06-07 15:05:43 -0700
commit46edaedaf3842164281d0f86c41bc152f4b4d32e (patch)
treef1f3d2c9aa8ef73a9c46bf8519be635a972f4439 /kernel/fork.c
parent513335f964a17bd99a699b939391eb111aa5f65b (diff)
parent40af1bbdca47e5c8a2044039bb78ca8fd8b20f94 (diff)
downloadlinux-46edaedaf3842164281d0f86c41bc152f4b4d32e.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's fixups)
Merge random fixes from Andrew Morton. * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (11 patches) mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec btree: catch NULL value before it does harm btree: fix tree corruption in btree_get_prev() ipc: shm: restore MADV_REMOVE functionality on shared memory segments drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c: correct Boris' mail address c/r: prctl: drop VMA flags test on PR_SET_MM_ stack data assignment c/r: prctl: add ability to get clear_tid_address c/r: prctl: add minimal address test to PR_SET_MM c/r: prctl: update prctl_set_mm_exe_file() after mm->num_exe_file_vmas removal MAINTAINERS: whitespace fixes shmem: replace_page must flush_dcache and others
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ab5211b9e622..0560781c6904 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -619,6 +619,14 @@ void mmput(struct mm_struct *mm)
module_put(mm->binfmt->module);
mmdrop(mm);
}
+
+ /*
+ * Final rss-counter synchronization. After this point there must be
+ * no pagefaults into this mm from the current context. Otherwise
+ * mm->rss_stat will be inconsistent.
+ */
+ if (mm)
+ sync_mm_rss(mm);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mmput);