mm: tiny-shmem nommu fix

The previous patch db203d53d474aa068984e409d807628f5841da1b ("mm:
tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex") to fix the lock
ordering in tiny-shmem breaks shared anonymous and IPC memory on NOMMU
architectures because it was using the expanding truncate to signal ramfs
to allocate a physically contiguous RAM backing the inode (otherwise it is
unusable for "memory mapping" it to userspace).

However do_truncate is what caused the lock ordering error, due to it
taking i_mutex.  In this case, we can actually just call ramfs directly to
allocate memory for the mapping, rather than go via truncate.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
index 52312ec..5145cb9 100644
--- a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
+++ b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ const struct inode_operations ramfs_file_inode_operations = {
  * size 0 on the assumption that it's going to be used for an mmap of shared
  * memory
  */
-static int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize)
+int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize)
 {
 	struct pagevec lru_pvec;
 	unsigned long npages, xpages, loop, limit;