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authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>2020-12-14 19:07:45 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-15 12:13:40 -0800
commitd3f5ffcacd1528736471bc78f03f06da6c4551cc (patch)
tree4c32f3003f16604d86d3639fe87bc69ad674e15a /mm/memory.c
parentbe37c98d1134a8e068b52618c086dab6b34b9a2c (diff)
downloadlinux-d3f5ffcacd1528736471bc78f03f06da6c4551cc.tar.bz2
mm: cleanup: remove unused tsk arg from __access_remote_vm
Despite a comment that said that page fault accounting would be charged to whatever task_struct* was passed into __access_remote_vm(), the tsk argument was actually unused. Making page fault accounting actually use this task struct is quite a project, so there is no point in keeping the tsk argument. Delete both the comment, and the argument. [rppt@linux.ibm.com: changelog addition] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026074137.4147787-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 50632c4366b8..4a42a74a2240 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4885,11 +4885,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_access_phys);
#endif
/*
- * Access another process' address space as given in mm. If non-NULL, use the
- * given task for page fault accounting.
+ * Access another process' address space as given in mm.
*/
-int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
- unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
+int __access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, void *buf,
+ int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
void *old_buf = buf;
@@ -4966,7 +4965,7 @@ int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
{
- return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
+ return __access_remote_vm(mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
}
/*
@@ -4984,7 +4983,7 @@ int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
if (!mm)
return 0;
- ret = __access_remote_vm(tsk, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
+ ret = __access_remote_vm(mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
mmput(mm);