From a8dd9c4df18edc873d244790d163564a5d17626b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Omar Sandoval Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 21:54:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] proc/kcore: don't grab lock for kclist_add() Patch series "/proc/kcore improvements", v4. This series makes a few improvements to /proc/kcore. It fixes a couple of small issues in v3 but is otherwise the same. Patches 1, 2, and 3 are prep patches. Patch 4 is a fix/cleanup. Patch 5 is another prep patch. Patches 6 and 7 are optimizations to ->read(). Patch 8 makes it possible to enable CRASH_CORE on any architecture, which is needed for patch 9. Patch 9 adds vmcoreinfo to /proc/kcore. This patch (of 9): kclist_add() is only called at init time, so there's no point in grabbing any locks. We're also going to replace the rwlock with a rwsem, which we don't want to try grabbing during early boot. While we're here, mark kclist_add() with __init so that we'll get a warning if it's called from non-init code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/98208db1faf167aa8b08eebfa968d95c70527739.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma Tested-by: Bhupesh Sharma Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Bhupesh Sharma Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: James Morse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/kcore.c | 7 +++---- include/linux/kcore.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c index 66c373230e60..b0b9a76f28d6 100644 --- a/fs/proc/kcore.c +++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c @@ -62,16 +62,15 @@ static LIST_HEAD(kclist_head); static DEFINE_RWLOCK(kclist_lock); static int kcore_need_update = 1; -void -kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size, int type) +/* This doesn't grab kclist_lock, so it should only be used at init time. */ +void __init kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size, + int type) { new->addr = (unsigned long)addr; new->size = size; new->type = type; - write_lock(&kclist_lock); list_add_tail(&new->list, &kclist_head); - write_unlock(&kclist_lock); } static size_t get_kcore_size(int *nphdr, size_t *elf_buflen) diff --git a/include/linux/kcore.h b/include/linux/kcore.h index 8de55e4b5ee9..c20f296438fb 100644 --- a/include/linux/kcore.h +++ b/include/linux/kcore.h @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct vmcoredd_node { }; #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_KCORE -extern void kclist_add(struct kcore_list *, void *, size_t, int type); +void __init kclist_add(struct kcore_list *, void *, size_t, int type); #else static inline void kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size, int type)