mm: cleanup: remove unused tsk arg from __access_remote_vm

Despite a comment that said that page fault accounting would be charged to whatever task_struct* was passed into __access_remote_vm(), the tsk argument was actually unused.

Delete both the comment, and the argument.

Signed-off-by John Hubbard <[email protected]>

Cc Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

---

Hi,

Just something that caught my eye when I was reviewing a semi-related patchset.

thanks,
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

 include/linux/mm.h |  4 ++--
 kernel/ptrace.c    |  2 +-
 mm/memory.c        | 11 +++++------
 mm/nommu.c         |  8 ++++----
 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

include/linux/mm.h +2 -2

index ef360fe70aaf..b3b85a5c5937 100644
@@ -1716,8 +1716,8 @@ extern int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
 		void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags);
 extern int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 		void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags);
-extern int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
-		unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags);
+extern int __access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
+			      void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags);
 
 long get_user_pages_remote(struct mm_struct *mm,
 			    unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,

kernel/ptrace.c +1 -1

index 43d6179508d6..fbbe32443b18 100644
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ int ptrace_access_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	ret = __access_remote_vm(tsk, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
+	ret = __access_remote_vm(mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
 	mmput(mm);
 
 	return ret;

mm/memory.c +5 -6

index c48f8df6e502..25b28bc251d5 100644
@@ -4874,11 +4874,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_access_phys);
 #endif
 
 /*
- * Access another process' address space as given in mm.  If non-NULL, use the
- * given task for page fault accounting.
+ * Access another process' address space as given in mm.
  */
-int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
-		unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
+int __access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, void *buf,
+		       int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 	void *old_buf = buf;

@@ -4955,7 +4954,7 @@ int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
 int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 		void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
 {
-	return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
+	return __access_remote_vm(mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
 }
 
 /*

@@ -4973,7 +4972,7 @@ int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
 	if (!mm)
 		return 0;
 
-	ret = __access_remote_vm(tsk, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
+	ret = __access_remote_vm(mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
 
 	mmput(mm);
 

mm/nommu.c +4 -4

index 0faf39b32cdb..870fea12823e 100644
@@ -1675,8 +1675,8 @@ void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_map_pages);
 
-int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
-		unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
+int __access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, void *buf,
+		       int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 	int write = gup_flags & FOLL_WRITE;

@@ -1722,7 +1722,7 @@ int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
 int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 		void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
 {
-	return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
+	return __access_remote_vm(mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
 }
 
 /*

@@ -1741,7 +1741,7 @@ int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, in
 	if (!mm)
 		return 0;
 
-	len = __access_remote_vm(tsk, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
+	len = __access_remote_vm(mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
 
 	mmput(mm);
 	return len;

base-commit: 3650b228f83adda7e5ee532e2b90429c03f7b9ec

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