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author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2011-06-28 03:18:09 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-06-28 05:00:13 +0400 |
commit | 9b679320a5fbf46454011e5c62e0b8991b0956d1 (patch) | |
tree | 49ea7be5e8bb669ef99533a18c73555e2882efc5 /mm/memory-failure.c | |
parent | aa2c96d6f329e66cc59352b0f12e8f04e6a9593b (diff) | |
download | linux-9b679320a5fbf46454011e5c62e0b8991b0956d1.tar.xz |
mm/memory-failure.c: fix spinlock vs mutex order
We cannot take a mutex while holding a spinlock, so flip the order and
fix the locking documentation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory-failure.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/memory-failure.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index eac0ba561491..740c4f52059c 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -391,10 +391,11 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill, struct task_struct *tsk; struct anon_vma *av; - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); av = page_lock_anon_vma(page); if (av == NULL) /* Not actually mapped anymore */ - goto out; + return; + + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); for_each_process (tsk) { struct anon_vma_chain *vmac; @@ -408,9 +409,8 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill, add_to_kill(tsk, page, vma, to_kill, tkc); } } - page_unlock_anon_vma(av); -out: read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + page_unlock_anon_vma(av); } /* @@ -424,17 +424,8 @@ static void collect_procs_file(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill, struct prio_tree_iter iter; struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; - /* - * A note on the locking order between the two locks. - * We don't rely on this particular order. - * If you have some other code that needs a different order - * feel free to switch them around. Or add a reverse link - * from mm_struct to task_struct, then this could be all - * done without taking tasklist_lock and looping over all tasks. - */ - - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); for_each_process(tsk) { pgoff_t pgoff = page->index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT); @@ -454,8 +445,8 @@ static void collect_procs_file(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill, add_to_kill(tsk, page, vma, to_kill, tkc); } } - mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); } /* |