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authorOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>2018-08-21 21:54:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-22 10:52:46 -0700
commita8dd9c4df18edc873d244790d163564a5d17626b (patch)
tree1f405bb4f0e800ed102184f09143421bfb332dcd /fs
parentdf865e8337c397471b95f51017fea559bc8abb4a (diff)
downloadlinux-a8dd9c4df18edc873d244790d163564a5d17626b.tar.bz2
proc/kcore: don't grab lock for kclist_add()
Patch series "/proc/kcore improvements", v4. This series makes a few improvements to /proc/kcore. It fixes a couple of small issues in v3 but is otherwise the same. Patches 1, 2, and 3 are prep patches. Patch 4 is a fix/cleanup. Patch 5 is another prep patch. Patches 6 and 7 are optimizations to ->read(). Patch 8 makes it possible to enable CRASH_CORE on any architecture, which is needed for patch 9. Patch 9 adds vmcoreinfo to /proc/kcore. This patch (of 9): kclist_add() is only called at init time, so there's no point in grabbing any locks. We're also going to replace the rwlock with a rwsem, which we don't want to try grabbing during early boot. While we're here, mark kclist_add() with __init so that we'll get a warning if it's called from non-init code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/98208db1faf167aa8b08eebfa968d95c70527739.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Tested-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/kcore.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index 66c373230e60..b0b9a76f28d6 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -62,16 +62,15 @@ static LIST_HEAD(kclist_head);
static DEFINE_RWLOCK(kclist_lock);
static int kcore_need_update = 1;
-void
-kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size, int type)
+/* This doesn't grab kclist_lock, so it should only be used at init time. */
+void __init kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size,
+ int type)
{
new->addr = (unsigned long)addr;
new->size = size;
new->type = type;
- write_lock(&kclist_lock);
list_add_tail(&new->list, &kclist_head);
- write_unlock(&kclist_lock);
}
static size_t get_kcore_size(int *nphdr, size_t *elf_buflen)