From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
To: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>, gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, arunks@codeaurora.org, brgl@bgdev.pl,
geert+renesas@glider.be, ldufour@linux.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
mguzik@redhat.com, mhocko@kernel.org, rppt@linux.ibm.com,
vbabka@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: get_cmdline use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:09:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c79fb09-c310-4426-68f7-8b268100359a@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190430081844.22597-2-mkoutny@suse.com>
On 30.04.2019 11:18, Michal Koutný wrote:
> The commit a3b609ef9f8b ("proc read mm's {arg,env}_{start,end} with mmap
> semaphore taken.") added synchronization of reading argument/environment
> boundaries under mmap_sem. Later commit 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce
> arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct")
> avoided the coarse use of mmap_sem in similar situations.
>
> get_cmdline can also use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem when it reads the
> boundaries.
>
> Fixes: 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct")
> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> mm/util.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
> index 43a2984bccaa..5cf0e84a0823 100644
> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -758,12 +758,12 @@ int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen)
> if (!mm->arg_end)
> goto out_mm; /* Shh! No looking before we're done */
>
> - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock);
> arg_start = mm->arg_start;
> arg_end = mm->arg_end;
> env_start = mm->env_start;
> env_end = mm->env_end;
> - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock);
>
> len = arg_end - arg_start;
This looks OK for me.
But speaking about existing code it's a secret for me, why we ignore arg_lock
in binfmt code, e.g. in load_elf_binary().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-30 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-17 12:03 [PATCH] mm: get_cmdline use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem Michal Koutný
2019-04-17 13:41 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-17 14:41 ` Michal Koutný
2019-04-17 14:55 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-18 13:50 ` [PATCH] prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock Michal Koutný
2019-04-18 14:09 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-18 14:15 ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-18 14:27 ` Laurent Dufour
2019-04-18 18:23 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-30 8:18 ` [PATCH 0/3] Reduce mmap_sem usage for args manipulation Michal Koutný
2019-04-30 8:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: get_cmdline use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem Michal Koutný
2019-04-30 9:09 ` Kirill Tkhai [this message]
2019-04-30 9:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-30 9:53 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-04-30 10:45 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-30 10:56 ` Michal Koutný
2019-04-30 13:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-30 8:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] prctl_set_mm: Refactor checks from validate_prctl_map Michal Koutný
2019-04-30 9:27 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-04-30 8:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock Michal Koutný
2019-04-30 8:55 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-04-30 9:08 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-04-30 9:11 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-02 12:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] Reduce mmap_sem usage for args manipulation Michal Koutný
2019-05-02 12:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] prctl_set_mm: Refactor checks from validate_prctl_map Michal Koutný
2019-05-02 20:57 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-05-02 12:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lock Michal Koutný
2019-05-02 20:57 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-05-06 9:28 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-07 17:42 ` Michal Hocko
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