Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: protect free_pgtables with mmap_lock write lock in exit_mmap
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-12-07 22:07:44
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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-12-07 22:07:44
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 01:50:30PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
- Added a comment for vm_operations_struct::close, documenting restriction for taking mmap_lock in the callback, per Michal Hocko and Matthew Wilcox
This should be a separate patch because it stands alone, but ...
struct vm_operations_struct {
void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct * area);
+ /*
+ * Called with mmap_lock lock held for write from __split_vma and
+ * remove_vma, therefore should never take that lock.
+ */Your whitespace indentation is weird. And it'd be nice to make this a kernel-doc comment (I know none of the others are, but that should be fixed too). And naming the functions that call it is wrong too. /** * @close: Called when the VMA is being removed from the MM. * Context: Caller holds mmap_lock. */