[PATCH] compound page: no access_process_vm check The PageCompound check before access_process_vm's set_page_dirty_lock is no longer necessary, so remove it. But leave the PageCompound checks in bio_set_pages_dirty, dio_bio_complete and nfs_free_user_pages: at least some of those were introduced as a little optimization on hugetlb pages. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 5f33cdb..d2cf144 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -242,8 +242,7 @@ if (write) { copy_to_user_page(vma, page, addr, maddr + offset, buf, bytes); - if (!PageCompound(page)) - set_page_dirty_lock(page); + set_page_dirty_lock(page); } else { copy_from_user_page(vma, page, addr, buf, maddr + offset, bytes);