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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2012-10-19 10:00:55 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-19 23:32:10 +0200
commit9e7814404b77c3e8920bee4277162bf3a7460505 (patch)
treef7542b049f29150680507dd211925401beadac9a /fs/proc/task_mmu.c
parentMerge branch 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ti... (diff)
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hold task->mempolicy while numa_maps scans.
/proc/<pid>/numa_maps scans vma and show mempolicy under mmap_sem. It sometimes accesses task->mempolicy which can be freed without mmap_sem and numa_maps can show some garbage while scanning. This patch tries to take reference count of task->mempolicy at reading numa_maps before calling get_vma_policy(). By this, task->mempolicy will not be freed until numa_maps reaches its end. V2->v3 - updated comments to be more verbose. - removed task_lock() in numa_maps code. V1->V2 - access task->mempolicy only once and remember it. Becase kernel/exit.c can overwrite it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/task_mmu.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/task_mmu.c50
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 14df8806ff29..90c63f9392a5 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -90,10 +90,55 @@ static void pad_len_spaces(struct seq_file *m, int len)
seq_printf(m, "%*c", len, ' ');
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+/*
+ * These functions are for numa_maps but called in generic **maps seq_file
+ * ->start(), ->stop() ops.
+ *
+ * numa_maps scans all vmas under mmap_sem and checks their mempolicy.
+ * Each mempolicy object is controlled by reference counting. The problem here
+ * is how to avoid accessing dead mempolicy object.
+ *
+ * Because we're holding mmap_sem while reading seq_file, it's safe to access
+ * each vma's mempolicy, no vma objects will never drop refs to mempolicy.
+ *
+ * A task's mempolicy (task->mempolicy) has different behavior. task->mempolicy
+ * is set and replaced under mmap_sem but unrefed and cleared under task_lock().
+ * So, without task_lock(), we cannot trust get_vma_policy() because we cannot
+ * gurantee the task never exits under us. But taking task_lock() around
+ * get_vma_plicy() causes lock order problem.
+ *
+ * To access task->mempolicy without lock, we hold a reference count of an
+ * object pointed by task->mempolicy and remember it. This will guarantee
+ * that task->mempolicy points to an alive object or NULL in numa_maps accesses.
+ */
+static void hold_task_mempolicy(struct proc_maps_private *priv)
+{
+ struct task_struct *task = priv->task;
+
+ task_lock(task);
+ priv->task_mempolicy = task->mempolicy;
+ mpol_get(priv->task_mempolicy);
+ task_unlock(task);
+}
+static void release_task_mempolicy(struct proc_maps_private *priv)
+{
+ mpol_put(priv->task_mempolicy);
+}
+#else
+static void hold_task_mempolicy(struct proc_maps_private *priv)
+{
+}
+static void release_task_mempolicy(struct proc_maps_private *priv)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
static void vma_stop(struct proc_maps_private *priv, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
if (vma && vma != priv->tail_vma) {
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+ release_task_mempolicy(priv);
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
mmput(mm);
}
@@ -132,7 +177,7 @@ static void *m_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
tail_vma = get_gate_vma(priv->task->mm);
priv->tail_vma = tail_vma;
-
+ hold_task_mempolicy(priv);
/* Start with last addr hint */
vma = find_vma(mm, last_addr);
if (last_addr && vma) {
@@ -159,6 +204,7 @@ out:
if (vma)
return vma;
+ release_task_mempolicy(priv);
/* End of vmas has been reached */
m->version = (tail_vma != NULL)? 0: -1UL;
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
@@ -1178,11 +1224,9 @@ static int show_numa_map(struct seq_file *m, void *v, int is_pid)
walk.private = md;
walk.mm = mm;
- task_lock(task);
pol = get_vma_policy(task, vma, vma->vm_start);
mpol_to_str(buffer, sizeof(buffer), pol, 0);
mpol_cond_put(pol);
- task_unlock(task);
seq_printf(m, "%08lx %s", vma->vm_start, buffer);