linux-kernel - [PATCH] adapt page_lock_anon_vma() to PREEMPT

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Date:	Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:06:21 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] adapt page_lock_anon_vma() to PREEMPT_RCU

page_lock_anon_vma() uses spin_lock() to block RCU. This doesn't work with
PREEMPT_RCU, we have to do rcu_read_lock() explicitely. Otherwise, it is
theoretically possible that slab returns anon_vma's memory to the system
before we do spin_unlock(&anon_vma->lock).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

--- WQ/mm/rmap.c~	2007-02-18 22:56:49.000000000 +0300
+++ WQ/mm/rmap.c	2007-02-25 22:43:00.000000000 +0300
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ void __init anon_vma_init(void)
  */
 static struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma(struct page *page)
 {
-	struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL;
+	struct anon_vma *anon_vma;
 	unsigned long anon_mapping;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
@@ -195,9 +195,16 @@ static struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_v
 
 	anon_vma = (struct anon_vma *) (anon_mapping - PAGE_MAPPING_ANON);
 	spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock);
+	return anon_vma;
 out:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
-	return anon_vma;
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static void page_unlock_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
+{
+	spin_unlock(&anon_vma->lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
 /*
@@ -333,7 +340,8 @@ static int page_referenced_anon(struct p
 		if (!mapcount)
 			break;
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&anon_vma->lock);
+
+	page_unlock_anon_vma(anon_vma);
 	return referenced;
 }
 
@@ -809,7 +817,8 @@ static int try_to_unmap_anon(struct page
 				!page_mapped(page))
 			break;
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&anon_vma->lock);
+
+	page_unlock_anon_vma(anon_vma);
 	return ret;
 }
 

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