tree ef245ebab7daea1b368d20faa3314ab99a799022
parent edfbbf388f293d70bf4b7c0bc38774d05e6f711a
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> 1398877368 +0200
committer Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> 1403647824 -0400

aio: change exit_aio() to load mm->ioctx_table once and avoid rcu_read_lock()

On 04/30, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
> > -		ctx->mmap_size = 0;
> > -
> > -		kill_ioctx(mm, ctx, NULL);
> > +		if (ctx) {
> > +			ctx->mmap_size = 0;
> > +			kill_ioctx(mm, ctx, NULL);
> > +		}
>
> Rather than indenting and moving the two lines changing mmap_size and the
> kill_ioctx() call, why not just do "if (!ctx) ... continue;"?  That reduces
> the number of lines changed and avoid excessive indentation.

OK. To me the code looks better/simpler with "if (ctx)", but this is subjective
of course, I won't argue.

The patch still removes the empty line between mmap_size = 0 and kill_ioctx(),
we reset mmap_size only for kill_ioctx(). But feel free to remove this change.

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Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] aio: change exit_aio() to load mm->ioctx_table once and avoid rcu_read_lock()

1. We can read ->ioctx_table only once and we do not read rcu_read_lock()
   or even rcu_dereference().

   This mm has no users, nobody else can play with ->ioctx_table. Otherwise
   the code is buggy anyway, if we need rcu_read_lock() in a loop because
   ->ioctx_table can be updated then kfree(table) is obviously wrong.

2. Update the comment. "exit_mmap(mm) is coming" is the good reason to avoid
   munmap(), but another reason is that we simply can't do vm_munmap() unless
   current->mm == mm and this is not true in general, the caller is mmput().

3. We do not really need to nullify mm->ioctx_table before return, probably
   the current code does this to catch the potential problems. But in this
   case RCU_INIT_POINTER(NULL) looks better.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>