[PATCH 1/1] mm/nommu: remove unnecessary VMA locking
Suren Baghdasaryan
surenb at google.com
Thu Mar 2 06:04:57 AEDT 2023
Since CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK depends on CONFIG_MMU, the changes in nommu
are not needed. Remove them.
Fixes: bad94decd6a4 ("mm: write-lock VMAs before removing them from VMA tree")
Reported-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo at gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y%2F8CJQGNuMUTdLwP@localhost/
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
---
Fix cleanly applies over mm-unstable, SHA in "Fixes" is from that tree.
mm/nommu.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 2ab162d773e2..57ba243c6a37 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -588,7 +588,6 @@ static int delete_vma_from_mm(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
current->pid);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- vma_start_write(vma);
cleanup_vma_from_mm(vma);
/* remove from the MM's tree and list */
@@ -1520,10 +1519,6 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
*/
mmap_write_lock(mm);
for_each_vma(vmi, vma) {
- /*
- * No need to lock VMA because this is the only mm user and no
- * page fault handled can race with it.
- */
cleanup_vma_from_mm(vma);
delete_vma(mm, vma);
cond_resched();
--
2.40.0.rc0.216.gc4246ad0f0-goog
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