linux-kernel - Re: [COUNTERPATCH] mm: avoid overflowing preempt_count() in mmu_take_all

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Date:	Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:45:00 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [COUNTERPATCH] mm: avoid overflowing preempt_count() in
 mmu_take_all_locks()

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 18:18 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:12:34PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > One thing we can do there is to mutex_trylock() if we get the lock, see
> > if we've got the right object, if the trylock fails we can do the
> > refcount thing and sleep. That would allow the fast-path to remain a
> > single atomic.
> 
> But then how do you know which anon_vma_unlink has to decrease the
> refcount and which not? That info should need to be stored in the
> kernel stack, can't be stored in the vma. I guess it's feasible but
> passing that info around sounds more tricky than the trylock itself
> (adding params to those functions with int &refcount). 

I was thinking of something like:

struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma(struct page *page)
{
	struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL;
	unsigned long anon_mapping;

	rcu_read_lock();
	anon_mapping = (unsigned long) ACCESS_ONCE(page->mapping);
        if ((anon_mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS) != PAGE_MAPPING_ANON)              
                goto out;                                                          
        if (!page_mapped(page))                                                    
                goto out;                                                          

        anon_vma = (struct anon_vma *) (anon_mapping - PAGE_MAPPING_ANON);         
        if (!mutex_trylock(&anon_vma->lock)) {
		if (atomic_inc_unless_zero(&anon_vma->ref)) {
			rcu_read_unlock();
			mutex_lock(&anon_vma->lock);
			atomic_dec(&anon_vma->ref); /* ensure the lock pins it */
		} else
			anon_vma = NULL;
	}
	rcu_read_unlock();
	
        return anon_vma;
}

void page_unlock_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
	mutex_unlock(&anon_vma->lock);	
}

Then anybody reaching ref==0 would only need to sync against the lock
before freeing.

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