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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2005-10-29 18:16:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-29 21:40:40 -0700
commit872fec16d9a0ed3b75b8893aa217e49cca575ee5 (patch)
tree1dfc8b9f2754bdfff645188e497865c00201d535 /mm/vmalloc.c
parent46dea3d092d23a58b42499cc8a21de0fad079f4a (diff)
downloadlinux-872fec16d9a0ed3b75b8893aa217e49cca575ee5.tar.bz2
[PATCH] mm: init_mm without ptlock
First step in pushing down the page_table_lock. init_mm.page_table_lock has been used throughout the architectures (usually for ioremap): not to serialize kernel address space allocation (that's usually vmlist_lock), but because pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel expect caller holds it. Reverse that: don't lock or unlock init_mm.page_table_lock in any of the architectures; instead rely on pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel to take and drop it when allocating a new one, to check lest a racing task already did. Similarly no page_table_lock in vmalloc's map_vm_area. Some temporary ugliness in __pud_alloc and __pmd_alloc: since they also handle user mms, which are converted only by a later patch, for now they have to lock differently according to whether or not it's init_mm. If sources get muddled, there's a danger that an arch source taking init_mm.page_table_lock will be mixed with common source also taking it (or neither take it). So break the rules and make another change, which should break the build for such a mismatch: remove the redundant mm arg from pte_alloc_kernel (ppc64 scrapped its distinct ioremap_mm in 2.6.13). Exceptions: arm26 used pte_alloc_kernel on user mm, now pte_alloc_map; ia64 used pte_alloc_map on init_mm, now pte_alloc_kernel; parisc had bad args to pmd_alloc and pte_alloc_kernel in unused USE_HPPA_IOREMAP code; ppc64 map_io_page forgot to unlock on failure; ppc mmu_mapin_ram and ppc64 im_free took page_table_lock for no good reason. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 5e9120598799..54a90e83cb31 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static int vmap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
{
pte_t *pte;
- pte = pte_alloc_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, addr);
+ pte = pte_alloc_kernel(pmd, addr);
if (!pte)
return -ENOMEM;
do {
@@ -147,14 +147,12 @@ int map_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area, pgprot_t prot, struct page ***pages)
BUG_ON(addr >= end);
pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr);
- spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
do {
next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
err = vmap_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, prot, pages);
if (err)
break;
} while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
- spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
flush_cache_vmap((unsigned long) area->addr, end);
return err;
}