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revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages"
authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:29:14 +0000 (16:29 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:38:56 +0000 (05:38 +0900)
commit14cfd9f986d521f3f97139fa2ae5db67886059d1
treeecef4bf5f2993d525f676b56ae025125fe1036a6
parent160f00fefef1e5b72be0745236d2b65d14b99ed4
revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages"

commit 8d34694c1abf29df1f3c7317936b7e3e2e308d9b upstream.

Commit 05f144a0d5c2 ("mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle
vma->vm_policy linkages") removed vma->vm_policy updates code but it is
the purpose of mbind_range().  Now, mbind_range() is virtually a no-op
and while it does not allow memory corruption it is not the right fix.
This patch is a revert.

[mgorman@suse.de: Edited changelog]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c