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Subject[PATCH 1/4] exit: Move read_unlock() up in mm_update_next_owner()
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All the places, we update task's mm, are made this
under task_lock(). These are exec_mmap(), exit_mm()
and kernel thread's use_mm() and unuse_mm().
The only exception is copy_mm(), which initializes
newborn task's mm, but we can't race with it, as
mm_update_next_owner() iterates tasks already linked
to task list.

get_task_struct() guarantees that task_struct can't free.
exec_mmap() and exit_mm() both call mm_update_next_owner():

task_lock(current);
current->mm = new_mm;
task_unlock(current);
mm_update_next_owner(mm);

and since mm_update_next_owner() checks and assigns mm under
task_lock() too, they can't miss they became a new mm owner.
So we can relax the lock and release tasklist_lock earlier.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
---
kernel/exit.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index c3c7ac560114..9fb7b699bdeb 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -464,18 +464,15 @@ void mm_update_next_owner(struct mm_struct *mm)
return;

assign_new_owner:
- BUG_ON(c == p);
get_task_struct(c);
+ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ BUG_ON(c == p);
+
/*
* The task_lock protects c->mm from changing.
* We always want mm->owner->mm == mm
*/
task_lock(c);
- /*
- * Delay read_unlock() till we have the task_lock()
- * to ensure that c does not slip away underneath us
- */
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
if (c->mm != mm) {
task_unlock(c);
put_task_struct(c);
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