linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch: um: kernel: skas: mmu: remove pmd_free() and pud_free() for failure processing in init_stub

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Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:07:04 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>, Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
CC:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	uml-user <user-mode-linux-user@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: um: kernel: skas: mmu: remove pmd_free() and pud_free()
 for failure processing in init_stub_pte()

Am 13.11.2013 06:06, schrieb Chen Gang:
> Unfortunately, p?d_alloc() and p?d_free() are not pair!! If p?d_alloc()
> succeed, they may be used, so in the next failure, we have to skip them
> to let exit_mmap() or do_munmap() to process it.
> 
> According to "Documentation/vm/locking", 'mm->page_table_lock' is for
> using vma list, so not need it when its related vmas are detached or
> unmapped from using vma list.
> 
> The related work flow:
> 
>   exit_mmap() ->
>     unmap_vmas(); /* so not need mm->page_table_lock */
>     free_pgtables();
> 
>   do_munmap()->
>     detach_vmas_to_be_unmapped(); /* so not need mm->page_table_lock */
>     unmap_region() ->
>       free_pgtables();
> 
>   free_pgtables() ->
>     free_pgd_range() ->
>       free_pud_range() ->
>         free_pmd_range() ->
>           free_pte_range() ->
>             pmd_clear();
>             pte_free_tlb();
>           pud_clear();
>           pmd_free_tlb();
>         pgd_clear(); 
>         pud_free_tlb();
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>

Sounds reasonable to me.
*But* there are patches you from out there that tried to fix similar issues and got reverted later.
Now I'm a bit nervous and want a ACK from mm folks to have this verified.
It's not that I don't trust you, but I really don't trust you. ;-)

Thanks,
//richard
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