From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933459Ab0DHTb4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:31:56 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:50046 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933471Ab0DHTbU (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:31:20 -0400 Message-Id: <20100408192722.643778654@chello.nl> User-Agent: quilt/0.47-1 Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:17:38 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Andrea Arcangeli , Avi Kivity , Thomas Gleixner , Rik van Riel , Ingo Molnar , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , David Miller , Hugh Dickins , Mel Gorman , Nick Piggin , Peter Zijlstra Subject: [PATCH 01/13] powerpc: Add rcu_read_lock() to gup_fast() implementation References: <20100408191737.296180458@chello.nl> Content-Disposition: inline; filename=powerpc-gup_fast-rcu.patch Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The powerpc page table freeing relies on the fact that IRQs hold off an RCU grace period, this is currently true for all existing RCU implementations but is not an assumption Paul wants to support. Therefore, also take the RCU read lock along with disabling IRQs to ensure the RCU grace period does at least cover these lookups. Requested-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long st * So long as we atomically load page table pointers versus teardown, * we can follow the address down to the the page and take a ref on it. */ + rcu_read_lock(); local_irq_disable(); pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr); @@ -162,6 +163,7 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long st } while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end); local_irq_enable(); + rcu_read_unlock(); VM_BUG_ON(nr != (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT); return nr; @@ -171,6 +173,7 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long st slow: local_irq_enable(); + rcu_read_unlock(); slow_irqon: pr_devel(" slow path ! nr = %d\n", nr);