[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, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm26/mm/memc.c b/arch/arm26/mm/memc.c
index 8e8a2bb2487..d6b008b8db7 100644
--- a/arch/arm26/mm/memc.c
+++ b/arch/arm26/mm/memc.c
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ pgd_t *get_pgd_slow(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	if (!new_pmd)
 		goto no_pmd;
 
-	new_pte = pte_alloc_kernel(mm, new_pmd, 0);
+	new_pte = pte_alloc_map(mm, new_pmd, 0);
 	if (!new_pte)
 		goto no_pte;
 
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ pgd_t *get_pgd_slow(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	init_pte = pte_offset(init_pmd, 0);
 
 	set_pte(new_pte, *init_pte);
+	pte_unmap(new_pte);
 
 	/*
 	 * the page table entries are zeroed