From 0aedadf91a70a11c4a3e7c7d99b21e5528af8d5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:53:30 -0800 Subject: mm: move migrate_prep out from under mmap_sem Move the migrate_prep outside the mmap_sem for the following system calls 1. sys_move_pages 2. sys_migrate_pages 3. sys_mbind() It really does not matter when we flush the lru. The system is free to add pages onto the lru even during migration which will make the page migration either skip the page (mbind, migrate_pages) or return a busy state (move_pages). Fixes this lockdep warning (and potential deadlock): Some VM place has mmap_sem -> kevent_wq via lru_add_drain_all() net/core/dev.c::dev_ioctl() has rtnl_lock -> mmap_sem (*) the ioctl has copy_from_user() and it can do page fault. linkwatch_event has kevent_wq -> rtnl_lock Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Reported-by: Heiko Carstens Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/migrate.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/migrate.c') diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 6602941bfab0..385db89f0c33 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -841,12 +841,12 @@ static int do_move_page_to_node_array(struct mm_struct *mm, struct page_to_node *pp; LIST_HEAD(pagelist); + migrate_prep(); down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); /* * Build a list of pages to migrate */ - migrate_prep(); for (pp = pm; pp->node != MAX_NUMNODES; pp++) { struct vm_area_struct *vma; struct page *page; -- cgit v1.2.2