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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2005-10-29 18:16:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-10-29 21:40:40 -0700 |
| commit | c74df32c724a1652ad8399b4891bb02c9d43743a (patch) | |
| tree | 5a79d56fdcf7dc2053a277dbf6db7c3b339e9659 /include/linux | |
| parent | 1bb3630e89cb8a7b3d3807629c20c5bad88290ff (diff) | |
[PATCH] mm: ptd_alloc take ptlock
Second step in pushing down the page_table_lock. Remove the temporary
bridging hack from __pud_alloc, __pmd_alloc, __pte_alloc: expect callers not
to hold page_table_lock, whether it's on init_mm or a user mm; take
page_table_lock internally to check if a racing task already allocated.
Convert their callers from common code. But avoid coming back to change them
again later: instead of moving the spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock) down,
switch over to new macros pte_alloc_map_lock and pte_unmap_unlock, which
encapsulate the mapping+locking and unlocking+unmapping together, and in the
end may use alternatives to the mm page_table_lock itself.
These callers all hold mmap_sem (some exclusively, some not), so at no level
can a page table be whipped away from beneath them; and pte_alloc uses the
"atomic" pmd_present to test whether it needs to allocate. It appears that on
all arches we can safely descend without page_table_lock.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 22c2d6922c0..d4c3512e7db 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -779,10 +779,28 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, unsigned long a } #endif /* CONFIG_MMU && !__ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK */ +#define pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, ptlp) \ +({ \ + spinlock_t *__ptl = &(mm)->page_table_lock; \ + pte_t *__pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address); \ + *(ptlp) = __ptl; \ + spin_lock(__ptl); \ + __pte; \ +}) + +#define pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl) do { \ + spin_unlock(ptl); \ + pte_unmap(pte); \ +} while (0) + #define pte_alloc_map(mm, pmd, address) \ ((unlikely(!pmd_present(*(pmd))) && __pte_alloc(mm, pmd, address))? \ NULL: pte_offset_map(pmd, address)) +#define pte_alloc_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, ptlp) \ + ((unlikely(!pmd_present(*(pmd))) && __pte_alloc(mm, pmd, address))? \ + NULL: pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, ptlp)) + #define pte_alloc_kernel(pmd, address) \ ((unlikely(!pmd_present(*(pmd))) && __pte_alloc_kernel(pmd, address))? \ NULL: pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address)) |