pid: tighten pidmap spinlock critical section by removing kfree()
Avoid calling kfree() under pidmap spinlock, calling it afterwards.
Normally kfree() is fast, but sometimes it can be slow, so avoid
calling it under the spinlock if we can do it.
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index d3f722d..55fd590 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -141,11 +141,12 @@
* installing it:
*/
spin_lock_irq(&pidmap_lock);
- if (map->page)
- kfree(page);
- else
+ if (!map->page) {
map->page = page;
+ page = NULL;
+ }
spin_unlock_irq(&pidmap_lock);
+ kfree(page);
if (unlikely(!map->page))
break;
}