linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/6] mmu

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801301125390.27491@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:28:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>, Izik Eidus <izike@...ranet.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	steiner@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	daniel.blueman@...drics.com, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code

How about just taking the mmap_sem writelock in release? We have only a 
single caller of mmu_notifier_release() in mm/mmap.c and we know that we 
are not holding mmap_sem at that point. So just acquire it when needed?

Index: linux-2.6/mm/mmu_notifier.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/mmu_notifier.c	2008-01-30 11:21:57.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6/mm/mmu_notifier.c	2008-01-30 11:24:59.000000000 -0800
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ void mmu_notifier_release(struct mm_stru
 	struct hlist_node *n, *t;
 
 	if (unlikely(!hlist_empty(&mm->mmu_notifier.head))) {
+		down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		hlist_for_each_entry_safe_rcu(mn, n, t,
 					  &mm->mmu_notifier.head, hlist) {
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ void mmu_notifier_release(struct mm_stru
 				mn->ops->release(mn, mm);
 		}
 		rcu_read_unlock();
+		up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		synchronize_rcu();
 	}
 }
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