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

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:08:34AM +0000, Cong Wang wrote:
> 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.
> 

Will fix, thanks for pointing this out.

As an aside, I would prefer if you did not drop people from the CC list. I
would have missed this mail for a long time if it hadn't been pointed out
to me privately.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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