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mm: make the vma list be doubly linked

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It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards
in it to find the previous vma.  So rather than have to look up the
previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it
doubly linked instead.

Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds
2010-08-20 16:24:55 -07:00
parent 36423a5ed5
commit 297c5eee37
4 changed files with 28 additions and 9 deletions
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@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
within vm_mm. */
/* linked list of VM areas per task, sorted by address */
struct vm_area_struct *vm_next;
struct vm_area_struct *vm_next, *vm_prev;
pgprot_t vm_page_prot; /* Access permissions of this VMA. */
unsigned long vm_flags; /* Flags, see mm.h. */