[PATCH] mm: init_mm without ptlock

First step in pushing down the page_table_lock.  init_mm.page_table_lock has
been used throughout the architectures (usually for ioremap): not to serialize
kernel address space allocation (that's usually vmlist_lock), but because
pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel expect caller holds it.

Reverse that: don't lock or unlock init_mm.page_table_lock in any of the
architectures; instead rely on pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel to take
and drop it when allocating a new one, to check lest a racing task already
did.  Similarly no page_table_lock in vmalloc's map_vm_area.

Some temporary ugliness in __pud_alloc and __pmd_alloc: since they also handle
user mms, which are converted only by a later patch, for now they have to lock
differently according to whether or not it's init_mm.

If sources get muddled, there's a danger that an arch source taking
init_mm.page_table_lock will be mixed with common source also taking it (or
neither take it).  So break the rules and make another change, which should
break the build for such a mismatch: remove the redundant mm arg from
pte_alloc_kernel (ppc64 scrapped its distinct ioremap_mm in 2.6.13).

Exceptions: arm26 used pte_alloc_kernel on user mm, now pte_alloc_map; ia64
used pte_alloc_map on init_mm, now pte_alloc_kernel; parisc had bad args to
pmd_alloc and pte_alloc_kernel in unused USE_HPPA_IOREMAP code; ppc64
map_io_page forgot to unlock on failure; ppc mmu_mapin_ram and ppc64 im_free
took page_table_lock for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/cris/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/cris/mm/ioremap.c
index ebba11e270fa..a92ac9877582 100644
--- a/arch/cris/mm/ioremap.c
+++ b/arch/cris/mm/ioremap.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static inline int remap_area_pmd(pmd_t * pmd, unsigned long address, unsigned lo
 	if (address >= end)
 		BUG();
 	do {
-		pte_t * pte = pte_alloc_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, address);
+		pte_t * pte = pte_alloc_kernel(pmd, address);
 		if (!pte)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		remap_area_pte(pte, address, end - address, address + phys_addr, prot);
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ static int remap_area_pages(unsigned long address, unsigned long phys_addr,
 	flush_cache_all();
 	if (address >= end)
 		BUG();
-	spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
 	do {
 		pud_t *pud;
 		pmd_t *pmd;
@@ -94,7 +93,6 @@ static int remap_area_pages(unsigned long address, unsigned long phys_addr,
 		address = (address + PGDIR_SIZE) & PGDIR_MASK;
 		dir++;
 	} while (address && (address < end));
-	spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
 	flush_tlb_all();
 	return error;
 }