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yaml
---
r: 336247
b: refs/heads/master
c: 18a2f37
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  336245: fac1dfc
  336243: da85f85
  336239: 19ea42d
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: c702418f8a2fa6cc92e84a39880d458faf7af9cc
+refs/heads/master: 18a2f371f5edf41810f6469cb9be39931ef9deb9

trunk/include/linux/mempolicy.h

@@ -82,16 +82,6 @@ static inline void mpol_cond_put(struct mempolicy *pol)
 		__mpol_put(pol);
 }
 
-extern struct mempolicy *__mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *tompol,
-					  struct mempolicy *frompol);
-static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *tompol,
-						struct mempolicy *frompol)
-{
-	if (!frompol)
-		return frompol;
-	return __mpol_cond_copy(tompol, frompol);
-}
-
 extern struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *pol);
 static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *pol)
 {
@@ -215,12 +205,6 @@ static inline void mpol_cond_put(struct mempolicy *pol)
 {
 }
 
-static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *to,
-						struct mempolicy *from)
-{
-	return from;
-}
-
 static inline void mpol_get(struct mempolicy *pol)
 {
 }

trunk/mm/mempolicy.c

@@ -2037,28 +2037,6 @@ struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *old)
 	return new;
 }
 
-/*
- * If *frompol needs [has] an extra ref, copy *frompol to *tompol ,
- * eliminate the * MPOL_F_* flags that require conditional ref and
- * [NOTE!!!] drop the extra ref.  Not safe to reference *frompol directly
- * after return.  Use the returned value.
- *
- * Allows use of a mempolicy for, e.g., multiple allocations with a single
- * policy lookup, even if the policy needs/has extra ref on lookup.
- * shmem_readahead needs this.
- */
-struct mempolicy *__mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *tompol,
-						struct mempolicy *frompol)
-{
-	if (!mpol_needs_cond_ref(frompol))
-		return frompol;
-
-	*tompol = *frompol;
-	tompol->flags &= ~MPOL_F_SHARED;	/* copy doesn't need unref */
-	__mpol_put(frompol);
-	return tompol;
-}
-
 /* Slow path of a mempolicy comparison */
 bool __mpol_equal(struct mempolicy *a, struct mempolicy *b)
 {

trunk/mm/shmem.c

@@ -910,25 +910,29 @@ static struct mempolicy *shmem_get_sbmpol(struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo)
 static struct page *shmem_swapin(swp_entry_t swap, gfp_t gfp,
 			struct shmem_inode_info *info, pgoff_t index)
 {
-	struct mempolicy mpol, *spol;
 	struct vm_area_struct pvma;
-
-	spol = mpol_cond_copy(&mpol,
-			mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index));
+	struct page *page;
 
 	/* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */
 	pvma.vm_start = 0;
 	/* Bias interleave by inode number to distribute better across nodes */
 	pvma.vm_pgoff = index + info->vfs_inode.i_ino;
 	pvma.vm_ops = NULL;
-	pvma.vm_policy = spol;
-	return swapin_readahead(swap, gfp, &pvma, 0);
+	pvma.vm_policy = mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index);
+
+	page = swapin_readahead(swap, gfp, &pvma, 0);
+
+	/* Drop reference taken by mpol_shared_policy_lookup() */
+	mpol_cond_put(pvma.vm_policy);
+
+	return page;
 }
 
 static struct page *shmem_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp,
 			struct shmem_inode_info *info, pgoff_t index)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct pvma;
+	struct page *page;
 
 	/* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */
 	pvma.vm_start = 0;
@@ -937,10 +941,12 @@ static struct page *shmem_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp,
 	pvma.vm_ops = NULL;
 	pvma.vm_policy = mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index);
 
-	/*
-	 * alloc_page_vma() will drop the shared policy reference
-	 */
-	return alloc_page_vma(gfp, &pvma, 0);
+	page = alloc_page_vma(gfp, &pvma, 0);
+
+	/* Drop reference taken by mpol_shared_policy_lookup() */
+	mpol_cond_put(pvma.vm_policy);
+
+	return page;
 }
 #else /* !CONFIG_NUMA */
 #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS