[PATCH] mm: init_mm without ptlock
First step in pushing down the page_table_lock. init_mm.page_table_lock has
been used throughout the architectures (usually for ioremap): not to serialize
kernel address space allocation (that's usually vmlist_lock), but because
pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel expect caller holds it.
Reverse that: don't lock or unlock init_mm.page_table_lock in any of the
architectures; instead rely on pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel to take
and drop it when allocating a new one, to check lest a racing task already
did. Similarly no page_table_lock in vmalloc's map_vm_area.
Some temporary ugliness in __pud_alloc and __pmd_alloc: since they also handle
user mms, which are converted only by a later patch, for now they have to lock
differently according to whether or not it's init_mm.
If sources get muddled, there's a danger that an arch source taking
init_mm.page_table_lock will be mixed with common source also taking it (or
neither take it). So break the rules and make another change, which should
break the build for such a mismatch: remove the redundant mm arg from
pte_alloc_kernel (ppc64 scrapped its distinct ioremap_mm in 2.6.13).
Exceptions: arm26 used pte_alloc_kernel on user mm, now pte_alloc_map; ia64
used pte_alloc_map on init_mm, now pte_alloc_kernel; parisc had bad args to
pmd_alloc and pte_alloc_kernel in unused USE_HPPA_IOREMAP code; ppc64
map_io_page forgot to unlock on failure; ppc mmu_mapin_ram and ppc64 im_free
took page_table_lock for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c b/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c
index 82f4d5e..47b0b76 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c
@@ -397,8 +397,6 @@
pte_t *pte;
int ret = 0;
- spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-
do {
pgd = pgd_offset(&init_mm, CONSISTENT_BASE);
pmd = pmd_alloc(&init_mm, pgd, CONSISTENT_BASE);
@@ -409,7 +407,7 @@
}
WARN_ON(!pmd_none(*pmd));
- pte = pte_alloc_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, CONSISTENT_BASE);
+ pte = pte_alloc_kernel(pmd, CONSISTENT_BASE);
if (!pte) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: no pte tables\n", __func__);
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -419,8 +417,6 @@
consistent_pte = pte;
} while (0);
- spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-
return ret;
}