Re: [patch 1/5] vmalloc: do not check for freed locks on user maps

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

On Thursday 06 March 2008 03:03, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 
> User maps do not contain kernel internal objects. No need to check
> them.

Why not? Depends on your definition of kernel internal... and
objects ;)

Drivers could create and manage some objects in this vmalloc
area. They are no longer internal if you map them to userspace,
but I still don't think you want to vunmap it until those
object lifetimes are finished.


> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/vmalloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -382,7 +382,8 @@ static void __vunmap(const void *addr, i
>  		return;
>  	}
>
> -	debug_check_no_locks_freed(addr, area->size);
> +	if (!(area->flags & VM_USERMAP))
> +		debug_check_no_locks_freed(addr, area->size);
>
>  	if (deallocate_pages) {
>  		int i;