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mm/mmap.c: remove verify_mm_writelocked()
authorYangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
Wed, 5 Dec 2018 00:13:35 +0000 (11:13 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 5 Dec 2018 00:13:35 +0000 (11:13 +1100)
commitc05eb451f5d54c041204d3c2ba8ae5c83036882f
tree98ef14e81a5ba5b1ab89fd6c651c82ad7bc84bb4
parent9c63f7db19aa295763b5fbc776a41c79a64eb4c7
mm/mmap.c: remove verify_mm_writelocked()

We should get rid of this function.  It no longer serves its purpose.
This is a historical artifact from 2005 where do_brk was called outside of
the core mm.  We do have a proper abstraction in vm_brk_flags and that one
does the locking properly so there is no need to use this function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108174856.10811-1-tiny.windzz@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
mm/mmap.c