[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, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/alpha/mm/remap.c b/arch/alpha/mm/remap.c
index 19817ad3d89b..a78356c3ead5 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/mm/remap.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/mm/remap.c
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 
-/* called with the page_table_lock held */
 static inline void 
 remap_area_pte(pte_t * pte, unsigned long address, unsigned long size, 
                unsigned long phys_addr, unsigned long flags)
@@ -31,7 +30,6 @@ remap_area_pte(pte_t * pte, unsigned long address, unsigned long size,
         } while (address && (address < end));
 }
 
-/* called with the page_table_lock held */
 static inline int 
 remap_area_pmd(pmd_t * pmd, unsigned long address, unsigned long size, 
                unsigned long phys_addr, unsigned long flags)
@@ -46,7 +44,7 @@ remap_area_pmd(pmd_t * pmd, unsigned long address, unsigned long size,
         if (address >= end)
                 BUG();
         do {
-                pte_t * pte = pte_alloc_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, address);
+                pte_t * pte = pte_alloc_kernel(pmd, address);
                 if (!pte)
                         return -ENOMEM;
                 remap_area_pte(pte, address, end - address, 
@@ -70,7 +68,6 @@ __alpha_remap_area_pages(unsigned long address, unsigned long phys_addr,
         flush_cache_all();
         if (address >= end)
                 BUG();
-        spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
         do {
                 pmd_t *pmd;
                 pmd = pmd_alloc(&init_mm, dir, address);
@@ -84,7 +81,6 @@ __alpha_remap_area_pages(unsigned long address, unsigned long phys_addr,
                 address = (address + PGDIR_SIZE) & PGDIR_MASK;
                 dir++;
         } while (address && (address < end));
-        spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
         return error;
 }