hmm_devmem_find() requires rcu_read_lock_held() but there's nothing which actually uses the RCU protection. The only caller is hmm_devmem_pages_create() which already grabs the mutex and does superflous rcu_read_lock/unlock() around the function. This doesn't add anything and just adds to confusion. Remove the RCU protection and open-code the radix tree lookup. If this needs to become more sophisticated in the future, let's add them back when necessary. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hello, Jérôme. This came up while auditing percpu_ref users for missing explicit RCU grace periods. HMM doesn't seem to depend on RCU protection at all, so I thought it'd be better to remove it for now. It's only compile tested. Thanks. mm/hmm.c | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c index 320545b98..d4627c5 100644 --- a/mm/hmm.c +++ b/mm/hmm.c @@ -845,13 +845,6 @@ static void hmm_devmem_release(struct device *dev, void *data) hmm_devmem_radix_release(resource); } -static struct hmm_devmem *hmm_devmem_find(resource_size_t phys) -{ - WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_read_lock_held()); - - return radix_tree_lookup(&hmm_devmem_radix, phys >> PA_SECTION_SHIFT); -} - static int hmm_devmem_pages_create(struct hmm_devmem *devmem) { resource_size_t key, align_start, align_size, align_end; @@ -892,9 +885,8 @@ static int hmm_devmem_pages_create(struct hmm_devmem *devmem) for (key = align_start; key <= align_end; key += PA_SECTION_SIZE) { struct hmm_devmem *dup; - rcu_read_lock(); - dup = hmm_devmem_find(key); - rcu_read_unlock(); + dup = radix_tree_lookup(&hmm_devmem_radix, + key >> PA_SECTION_SHIFT); if (dup) { dev_err(device, "%s: collides with mapping for %s\n", __func__, dev_name(dup->device)); -- 2.9.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>