From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:56 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mm: debug write deadlocks
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5fe172370687e03cc6ba8dca990b75db18ff9bb3;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal7580.git

mm: debug write deadlocks

Allow CONFIG_DEBUG_VM to switch off the prefaulting logic, to simulate the
Makes the race much easier to hit.

This is useful for demonstration and testing purposes, but is removed in a
subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index f74d0520186..0c54fc9b8e3 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1878,6 +1878,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 		if (maxlen > bytes)
 			maxlen = bytes;
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
 		/*
 		 * Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_.
 		 * Otherwise there's a nasty deadlock on copying from the
@@ -1885,6 +1886,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 		 * up-to-date.
 		 */
 		fault_in_pages_readable(buf, maxlen);
+#endif
 
 		page = __grab_cache_page(mapping,index,&cached_page,&lru_pvec);
 		if (!page) {