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mm, vmalloc: iterate vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist in vread/vwrite()
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)
commit941e27d0c93a1e7da66e800465deef07b301d159
tree4ae28fc5f75d569abebbb3d2afd3b6b58dc7c3cd
parent0f06ed1b0aa5f56291e23dddf619c4f3a3f3d1e4
mm, vmalloc: iterate vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist in vread/vwrite()

Now, when we hold a vmap_area_lock, va->vm can't be discarded.  So we can
safely access to va->vm when iterating a vmap_area_list with holding a
vmap_area_lock.  With this property, change iterating vmlist codes in
vread/vwrite() to iterating vmap_area_list.

There is a little difference relate to lock, because vmlist_lock is mutex,
but, vmap_area_lock is spin_lock.  It may introduce a spinning overhead
during vread/vwrite() is executing.  But, these are debug-oriented
functions, so this overhead is not real problem for common case.

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