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.

Nick Piggin committed 18 years ago

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include/linux/ramfs.h+1−0

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ extern int ramfs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type, · 5 unmodified lines
6	int flags, const char dev_name, void data, struct vfsmount *mnt);	6	int flags, const char dev_name, void data, struct vfsmount *mnt);
7		7
8	#ifndef CONFIG_MMU	8	#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
		9	extern int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize);
9	extern unsigned long ramfs_nommu_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file,	10	extern unsigned long ramfs_nommu_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file,
10	unsigned long addr,	11	unsigned long addr,
11	unsigned long len,	12	unsigned long len,