From: Rik van Riel Track the root (oldest) anon_vma in each anon_vma tree. Because we only take the lock on the root anon_vma, we cannot use the lock on higher-up anon_vmas to lock anything. This makes it impossible to do an indirect lookup of the root anon_vma, since the data structures could go away from under us. However, a direct pointer is safe because the root anon_vma is always the last one that gets freed on munmap or exit, by virtue of the same_vma list order and unlink_anon_vmas walking the list forward. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <20100526154010.3904df5c@annuminas.surriel.com> --- include/linux/rmap.h | 1 + mm/rmap.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/rmap.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/rmap.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/rmap.h @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ */ struct anon_vma { spinlock_t lock; /* Serialize access to vma list */ + struct anon_vma *root; /* Root of this anon_vma tree */ #if defined(CONFIG_KSM) || defined(CONFIG_MIGRATION) /* Index: linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/rmap.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c @@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_stru if (unlikely(!anon_vma)) goto out_enomem_free_avc; allocated = anon_vma; + /* + * This VMA had no anon_vma yet. This anon_vma is + * the root of any anon_vma tree that might form. + */ + anon_vma->root = anon_vma; } anon_vma_lock(anon_vma); @@ -224,9 +229,15 @@ int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct avc = anon_vma_chain_alloc(); if (!avc) goto out_error_free_anon_vma; - anon_vma_chain_link(vma, avc, anon_vma); + + /* + * The root anon_vm's spinlock is the lock actually used when we + * lock any of the anon_vmas in this anon_vma tree. + */ + anon_vma->root = pvma->anon_vma->root; /* Mark this anon_vma as the one where our new (COWed) pages go. */ vma->anon_vma = anon_vma; + anon_vma_chain_link(vma, avc, anon_vma); return 0; @@ -261,7 +272,10 @@ void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_str { struct anon_vma_chain *avc, *next; - /* Unlink each anon_vma chained to the VMA. */ + /* + * Unlink each anon_vma chained to the VMA. This list is ordered + * from newest to oldest, ensuring the root anon_vma gets freed last. + */ list_for_each_entry_safe(avc, next, &vma->anon_vma_chain, same_vma) { anon_vma_unlink(avc); list_del(&avc->same_vma); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/