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    execve: expand new process stack manually ahead of time · f313c51d
    Linus Torvalds authored
    This is a small step towards a model where GUP itself would not expand
    the stack, and any user that needs GUP to not look up existing mappings,
    but actually expand on them, would have to do so manually before-hand,
    and with the mm lock held for writing.
    
    It turns out that execve() already did almost exactly that, except it
    didn't take the mm lock at all (it's single-threaded so no locking
    technically needed, but it could cause lockdep errors).  And it only did
    it for the CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP case, since in that case GUP has
    obviously never expanded the stack downwards.
    
    So just make that CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP case do the right thing with
    locking, and enable it generally.  This will eventually help GUP, and in
    the meantime avoids a special case and the lockdep issue.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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