Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables

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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 at 10:43 GMT, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> +		if (!down_read_trylock(&svma->vm_mm->mmap_sem)) {
> +			mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
> +			goto retry;
> +		}
> +
> +		smmap_sem = &svma->vm_mm->mmap_sem;
> +		spage_table_lock = &svma->vm_mm->page_table_lock;
> +		spin_lock_nested(spage_table_lock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
>  
>  		saddr = page_table_shareable(svma, vma, addr, idx);
>  		if (saddr) {
> @@ -85,6 +108,10 @@ static void huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pud_t *pud)
>  				break;
>  			}
>  		}
> +		up_read(smmap_sem);
> +		spin_unlock(spage_table_lock);

Looks like we should do spin_unlock() before up_read(),
in the reverse order of how they get accquired.

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