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>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] uprobes: Kill uprobe->copy_mutex
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:02:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121124180236.GA30993@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121124180213.GA30963@redhat.com>
Now that ->register_rwsem is safe under ->mmap_sem we can kill
->copy_mutex and abuse down_write(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem).
This makes prepare_uprobe() even more ugly, but we should kill
it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 7 +++----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 97c3874..1e047f8 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ struct uprobe {
atomic_t ref;
struct rw_semaphore register_rwsem;
struct rw_semaphore consumer_rwsem;
- struct mutex copy_mutex; /* TODO: kill me and UPROBE_COPY_INSN */
struct list_head pending_list;
struct uprobe_consumer *consumers;
struct inode *inode; /* Also hold a ref to inode */
@@ -450,7 +449,6 @@ static struct uprobe *alloc_uprobe(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset)
uprobe->offset = offset;
init_rwsem(&uprobe->register_rwsem);
init_rwsem(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem);
- mutex_init(&uprobe->copy_mutex);
/* For now assume that the instruction need not be single-stepped */
__set_bit(UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP, &uprobe->flags);
@@ -578,7 +576,8 @@ static int prepare_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct file *file,
if (test_bit(UPROBE_COPY_INSN, &uprobe->flags))
return ret;
- mutex_lock(&uprobe->copy_mutex);
+ /* TODO: move this into _register, until then we abuse this sem. */
+ down_write(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem);
if (test_bit(UPROBE_COPY_INSN, &uprobe->flags))
goto out;
@@ -602,7 +601,7 @@ static int prepare_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct file *file,
set_bit(UPROBE_COPY_INSN, &uprobe->flags);
out:
- mutex_unlock(&uprobe->copy_mutex);
+ up_write(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem);
return ret;
}
--
1.5.5.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-24 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-24 18:02 [PATCH 0/4] uprobes: locking changes for filtering Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-24 18:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] uprobes: Introduce uprobe->register_rwsem Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-13 14:09 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-11-24 18:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] uprobes: Change filter_chain() to iterate ->consumers list Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-13 14:12 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-11-24 18:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] uprobes: Kill UPROBE_RUN_HANDLER flag Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-13 14:29 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-11-24 18:02 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-12-13 14:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] uprobes: Kill uprobe->copy_mutex Srikar Dronamraju
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