linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: grab rcu read lock in move

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Date:	Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:17:26 -0800
From:	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: grab rcu read lock in move_pages()

The move_pages() usage of find_task_by_vpid() requires rcu_read_lock()
to prevent free_pid() from reclaiming the pid.

Without this patch, RCU warnings are printed in v2.6.38-rc4 move_pages()
with:
  CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=y
  CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
  CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y
  CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
  CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y

Previously, migrate_pages() went through a similar transformation
replacing usage of tasklist_lock with rcu read lock:
  commit 55cfaa3cbdd29c4919ecb5fb8965c310f357e48c
  Author: Zeng Zhaoming <zengzm.kernel@...il.com>
  Date:   Thu Dec 2 14:31:13 2010 -0800

      mm/mempolicy.c: add rcu read lock to protect pid structure

  commit 1e50df39f6e2c3a4a3394df62baa8a213df16c54
  Author: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
  Date:   Thu Jan 13 15:46:14 2011 -0800

      mempolicy: remove tasklist_lock from migrate_pages

Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
---
 mm/migrate.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 7661152..352de555 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1287,14 +1287,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(move_pages, pid_t, pid, unsigned long, nr_pages,
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	/* Find the mm_struct */
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	task = pid ? find_task_by_vpid(pid) : current;
 	if (!task) {
-		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		return -ESRCH;
 	}
 	mm = get_task_mm(task);
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	if (!mm)
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
1.7.3.1

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