[PATCH 13/26] ppc: Convert mmu context allocation to new IDA API
Matthew Wilcox
willy at infradead.org
Fri Jun 22 14:38:15 AEST 2018
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:15:11PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:28:22 -0700
> Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org> wrote:
> > static int alloc_context_id(int min_id, int max_id)
...
> > - spin_lock(&mmu_context_lock);
> > - err = ida_get_new_above(&mmu_context_ida, min_id, &index);
> > - spin_unlock(&mmu_context_lock);
...
> > @@ -182,13 +148,11 @@ static void destroy_contexts(mm_context_t *ctx)
> > {
> > int index, context_id;
> >
> > - spin_lock(&mmu_context_lock);
> > for (index = 0; index < ARRAY_SIZE(ctx->extended_id); index++) {
> > context_id = ctx->extended_id[index];
> > if (context_id)
> > - ida_remove(&mmu_context_ida, context_id);
> > + ida_free(&mmu_context_ida, context_id);
> > }
> > - spin_unlock(&mmu_context_lock);
> > }
> >
> > static void pte_frag_destroy(void *pte_frag)
>
> This hunk should be okay because the mmu_context_lock does not protect
> the extended_id array, right Aneesh?
That's my understanding. The code today does this:
static inline int alloc_extended_context(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long ea)
{
int context_id;
int index = ea >> MAX_EA_BITS_PER_CONTEXT;
context_id = hash__alloc_context_id();
if (context_id < 0)
return context_id;
VM_WARN_ON(mm->context.extended_id[index]);
mm->context.extended_id[index] = context_id;
so it's not currently protected by this lock. I suppose we are currently
protected from destroy_contexts() being called twice simultaneously, but
you'll notice that we don't zero the array elements in destroy_contexts(),
so if we somehow had a code path which could call it concurrently, we'd
be seeing warnings when the second caller tried to remove the context
IDs from the IDA. I deduced that something else must be preventing
this situation from occurring (like, oh i don't know, this function only
being called on process exit, so implicitly only called once per context).
> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Thanks.
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