From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] uprobes: write_opcode: alloc the new page outside of "retry" loop
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:47:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120619194759.GE30146@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120619194636.GA30137@redhat.com>
It is ugly to free and re-alloc new_page if write_opcode() needs to
retry. Move alloc_page_vma/page_cache_release outside of "retry" loop.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 26 +++++++++++---------------
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 442064d..3fd7bdf 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -214,19 +214,18 @@ static int write_opcode(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct mm_struct *mm,
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
int ret;
-retry:
- /* Read the page with vaddr into memory */
- ret = get_user_pages(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, 0, 0, &old_page, &vma);
- if (ret <= 0)
- return ret;
-
- ret = -ENOMEM;
new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, vaddr);
if (!new_page)
- goto put_old;
+ return -ENOMEM;
__SetPageUptodate(new_page);
+ retry:
+ /* Read the page with vaddr into memory */
+ ret = get_user_pages(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, 0, 0, &old_page, &vma);
+ if (ret <= 0)
+ goto out;
+
/* copy the page now that we've got it stable */
vaddr_old = kmap_atomic(old_page);
vaddr_new = kmap_atomic(new_page);
@@ -238,18 +237,15 @@ retry:
kunmap_atomic(vaddr_old);
ret = anon_vma_prepare(vma);
- if (ret)
- goto put_new;
+ if (!ret)
+ ret = __replace_page(vma, vaddr, old_page, new_page);
- ret = __replace_page(vma, vaddr, old_page, new_page);
-
-put_new:
- page_cache_release(new_page);
-put_old:
put_page(old_page);
if (unlikely(ret == -EAGAIN))
goto retry;
+ out:
+ page_cache_release(new_page);
return ret;
}
--
1.5.5.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-19 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-19 19:46 [PATCH 0/5] uprobes: write_opcode() cleanups Oleg Nesterov
2012-06-19 19:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] uprobes: don't recheck vma/f_mapping in write_opcode() Oleg Nesterov
2012-06-19 19:47 ` [PATCH 2/5] uprobes: __replace_page() should not use page_address_in_vma() Oleg Nesterov
2012-06-20 12:07 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-06-20 13:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-06-19 19:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] uprobes: kill write_opcode()->lock_page(new_page) Oleg Nesterov
2012-06-19 19:47 ` [PATCH 4/5] uprobes: cleanup and document write_opcode()->lock_page(old_page) Oleg Nesterov
2012-06-19 19:47 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-06-20 12:29 ` [PATCH 5/5] uprobes: write_opcode: alloc the new page outside of "retry" loop Anton Arapov
2012-06-20 13:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
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