[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>
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 5e91205..54a90e8 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
{
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 @@
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;
}