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mm: mmu_notifier: have mmu_notifiers use a global SRCU so they may safely schedule

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With an RCU based mmu_notifier implementation, any callout to
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_{start,end}() or
mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() would not be allowed to call schedule()
as that could potentially allow a modification to the mmu_notifier
structure while it is currently being used.

Since srcu allocs 4 machine words per instance per cpu, we may end up
with memory exhaustion if we use srcu per mm.  So all mms share a global
srcu.  Note that during large mmu_notifier activity exit & unregister
paths might hang for longer periods, but it is tolerable for current
mmu_notifier clients.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sagi Grimberg
2012-10-08 16:29:24 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 48af0d7cb3
commit 21a92735f6
2 changed files with 49 additions and 25 deletions
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include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
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#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/mm_types.h>
#include <linux/srcu.h>
struct mmu_notifier;
struct mmu_notifier_ops;