On most architectures, def_flags is either 0 or VM_LOCKED depending on whether mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) was called. However, this is not an absolute rule as kvm support on s390 may set the VM_NOHUGEPAGE flag in def_flags. We don't want mlockall to clear that.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <wal...@google.com> --- mm/mlock.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c index f0b9ce572fc7..a2ee45c030fa 100644 --- a/mm/mlock.c +++ b/mm/mlock.c @@ -517,10 +517,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len) static int do_mlockall(int flags) { struct vm_area_struct * vma, * prev = NULL; - unsigned int def_flags = 0; + unsigned int def_flags; + def_flags = current->mm->def_flags & ~VM_LOCKED; if (flags & MCL_FUTURE) - def_flags = VM_LOCKED; + def_flags |= VM_LOCKED; current->mm->def_flags = def_flags; if (flags == MCL_FUTURE) goto out; -- 1.7.7.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/