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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-08-31 09:45:21 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-08-31 09:45:46 +0200
commitdaab7fc734a53fdeaf844b7c03053118ad1769da (patch)
tree575deb3cdcc6dda562acaed6f7c29bc81ae01cf2 /kernel/pid.c
parent774ea0bcb27f57b6fd521b3b6c43237782fed4b9 (diff)
parent2bfc96a127bc1cc94d26bfaa40159966064f9c8c (diff)
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Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc3' into x86/memblock
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c mm/memblock.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, update to latest upstream. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid.c56
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index e9fd8c1..d55c6fb 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -122,6 +122,43 @@ static void free_pidmap(struct upid *upid)
atomic_inc(&map->nr_free);
}
+/*
+ * If we started walking pids at 'base', is 'a' seen before 'b'?
+ */
+static int pid_before(int base, int a, int b)
+{
+ /*
+ * This is the same as saying
+ *
+ * (a - base + MAXUINT) % MAXUINT < (b - base + MAXUINT) % MAXUINT
+ * and that mapping orders 'a' and 'b' with respect to 'base'.
+ */
+ return (unsigned)(a - base) < (unsigned)(b - base);
+}
+
+/*
+ * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid.
+ * We want the winner to have the "later" value, because if the
+ * "earlier" value prevails, then a pid may get reused immediately.
+ *
+ * Since pids rollover, it is not sufficient to just pick the bigger
+ * value. We have to consider where we started counting from.
+ *
+ * 'base' is the value of pid_ns->last_pid that we observed when
+ * we started looking for a pid.
+ *
+ * 'pid' is the pid that we eventually found.
+ */
+static void set_last_pid(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns, int base, int pid)
+{
+ int prev;
+ int last_write = base;
+ do {
+ prev = last_write;
+ last_write = cmpxchg(&pid_ns->last_pid, prev, pid);
+ } while ((prev != last_write) && (pid_before(base, last_write, pid)));
+}
+
static int alloc_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
{
int i, offset, max_scan, pid, last = pid_ns->last_pid;
@@ -132,7 +169,12 @@ static int alloc_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
pid = RESERVED_PIDS;
offset = pid & BITS_PER_PAGE_MASK;
map = &pid_ns->pidmap[pid/BITS_PER_PAGE];
- max_scan = (pid_max + BITS_PER_PAGE - 1)/BITS_PER_PAGE - !offset;
+ /*
+ * If last_pid points into the middle of the map->page we
+ * want to scan this bitmap block twice, the second time
+ * we start with offset == 0 (or RESERVED_PIDS).
+ */
+ max_scan = DIV_ROUND_UP(pid_max, BITS_PER_PAGE) - !offset;
for (i = 0; i <= max_scan; ++i) {
if (unlikely(!map->page)) {
void *page = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -154,20 +196,12 @@ static int alloc_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
do {
if (!test_and_set_bit(offset, map->page)) {
atomic_dec(&map->nr_free);
- pid_ns->last_pid = pid;
+ set_last_pid(pid_ns, last, pid);
return pid;
}
offset = find_next_offset(map, offset);
pid = mk_pid(pid_ns, map, offset);
- /*
- * find_next_offset() found a bit, the pid from it
- * is in-bounds, and if we fell back to the last
- * bitmap block and the final block was the same
- * as the starting point, pid is before last_pid.
- */
- } while (offset < BITS_PER_PAGE && pid < pid_max &&
- (i != max_scan || pid < last ||
- !((last+1) & BITS_PER_PAGE_MASK)));
+ } while (offset < BITS_PER_PAGE && pid < pid_max);
}
if (map < &pid_ns->pidmap[(pid_max-1)/BITS_PER_PAGE]) {
++map;
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