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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2005-10-29 18:16:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-10-29 21:40:40 -0700 |
| commit | 872fec16d9a0ed3b75b8893aa217e49cca575ee5 (patch) | |
| tree | 1dfc8b9f2754bdfff645188e497865c00201d535 /include | |
| parent | 46dea3d092d23a58b42499cc8a21de0fad079f4a (diff) | |
[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 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 89398032bc4b..b9fa82b96d9e 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static inline void unmap_shared_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping, extern int vmtruncate(struct inode * inode, loff_t offset); extern pud_t *FASTCALL(__pud_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long address)); extern pmd_t *FASTCALL(__pmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, unsigned long address)); -extern pte_t *FASTCALL(pte_alloc_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long address)); +extern pte_t *FASTCALL(pte_alloc_kernel(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long address)); extern pte_t *FASTCALL(pte_alloc_map(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long address)); extern int install_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, struct page *page, pgprot_t prot); extern int install_file_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, unsigned long pgoff, pgprot_t prot); |