[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/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 5e91205..54a90e8 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static int vmap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
 {
 	pte_t *pte;
 
-	pte = pte_alloc_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, addr);
+	pte = pte_alloc_kernel(pmd, addr);
 	if (!pte)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	do {
@@ -147,14 +147,12 @@ int map_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area, pgprot_t prot, struct page ***pages)
 
 	BUG_ON(addr >= end);
 	pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr);
-	spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
 	do {
 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
 		err = vmap_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, prot, pages);
 		if (err)
 			break;
 	} while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
-	spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
 	flush_cache_vmap((unsigned long) area->addr, end);
 	return err;
 }