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mm, vmalloc: protect va->vm by vmap_area_lock
authorJoonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:07:25 +0000 (15:07 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:22:50 +0000 (15:22 +1100)
commit0f06ed1b0aa5f56291e23dddf619c4f3a3f3d1e4
tree336a42747b2c7de8897bcf52cadf718b9c12e16e
parent8c5ef1bbd6b46d3d3b58b19b34df7bc7142bfa46
mm, vmalloc: protect va->vm by vmap_area_lock

Inserting and removing an entry to vmlist is linear time complexity, so it
is inefficient.  Following patches will try to remove vmlist entirely.
This patch is preparing step for it.

For removing vmlist, iterating vmlist codes should be changed to iterating
a vmap_area_list.  Before implementing that, we should make sure that when
we iterate a vmap_area_list, accessing to va->vm doesn't cause a race
condition.  This patch ensure that when iterating a vmap_area_list, there
is no race condition for accessing to vm_struct.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c