The MM-notifier code currently dynamically initializes the srcu_struct
named "srcu" at subsys_initcall() time, and includes a BUG_ON() to check
this initialization in do_mmu_notifier_register(). Unfortunately, there
is no foolproof way to verify that an srcu_struct has been initialized,
given the possibility of an srcu_struct being allocated on the stack or
on the heap. This means that creating an srcu_struct_is_initialized()
function is not a reasonable course of action. Nor is peppering
do_mmu_notifier_register() with SRCU-specific #ifdefs an attractive
alternative.
This commit therefore uses DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() to initialize
this srcu_struct at compile time, thus eliminating both the
subsys_initcall()-time initialization and the runtime BUG_ON().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mmu_notifier.c | 14 +-------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/mmu_notifier.c b/mm/mmu_notifier.c
index a7652acd2ab9..54ca54562928 100644
--- a/mm/mmu_notifier.c
+++ b/mm/mmu_notifier.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
/* global SRCU for all MMs */
-static struct srcu_struct srcu;
+DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(srcu);
/*
* This function allows mmu_notifier::release callback to delay a call to
@@ -252,12 +252,6 @@ static int do_mmu_notifier_register(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
BUG_ON(atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= 0);
- /*
- * Verify that mmu_notifier_init() already run and the global srcu is
- * initialized.
- */
- BUG_ON(!srcu.per_cpu_ref);
-
ret = -ENOMEM;
mmu_notifier_mm = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mmu_notifier_mm), GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!mmu_notifier_mm))
@@ -406,9 +400,3 @@ void mmu_notifier_unregister_no_release(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
mmdrop(mm);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mmu_notifier_unregister_no_release);
-
-static int __init mmu_notifier_init(void)
-{
- return init_srcu_struct(&srcu);
-}
-subsys_initcall(mmu_notifier_init);
--
2.5.2
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