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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>
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:33:52 +0000 (16:33 +1100)
commitd993a982cad7d1acb31d05759b40295393b7d0f6
treeff044228cc3500c30e7a111baf31ee19f64e73c5
parentd6fdfebfdd328b12a72d168101bf949868f4c1e6
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