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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2022-10-25 21:38:21 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-08-08 19:56:36 +0200
commit3d1b8cfdd0c9e2d941f96b09738472ecf91bc599 (patch)
tree928fc0645eb39b5718c82f792501f58c15358833 /kernel
parentddcf05fe8850110fe521845b995dd1867d7517b7 (diff)
x86/mm: Use mm_alloc() in poking_init()
commit 3f4c8211d982099be693be9aa7d6fc4607dff290 upstream. Instead of duplicating init_mm, allocate a fresh mm. The advantage is that mm_alloc() has much simpler dependencies. Additionally it makes more conceptual sense, init_mm has no (and must not have) user state to duplicate. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201057.816175235@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 5b4a19682207..9b65c523751c 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2335,11 +2335,6 @@ struct task_struct *fork_idle(int cpu)
return task;
}
-struct mm_struct *copy_init_mm(void)
-{
- return dup_mm(NULL, &init_mm);
-}
-
/*
* Ok, this is the main fork-routine.
*