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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
	borntraeger@de.ibm.com, mst@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	David.Laight@ACULAB.COM, peterz@infradead.org, hughd@google.com,
	hocko@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/5] mm, uaccess: trigger might_sleep() in might_fault() when pagefaults are disabled
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 12:45:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141205114529.GD4213@osiris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417778289-51567-4-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 12:18:07PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> -void might_fault(void)
> +void __might_fault(const char *file, int line)
>  {
>  	/*
>  	 * Some code (nfs/sunrpc) uses socket ops on kernel memory while
> @@ -3710,21 +3710,16 @@ void might_fault(void)
>  	 */
>  	if (segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS))
>  		return;
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * it would be nicer only to annotate paths which are not under
> -	 * pagefault_disable, however that requires a larger audit and
> -	 * providing helpers like get_user_atomic.
> -	 */
> -	if (in_atomic())
> +	if (unlikely(!pagefault_disabled())) {
> +		__might_sleep(file, line, 0);
>  		return;
> -
> -	__might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__, 0);
> -
> +	}

This should be likely() instead of unlikely(), no?
I'd rather write this

	if (pagefault_disabled())
 		return;
	__might_sleep(file, line, 0);

and leave the likely stuff completely away.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-05 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-05 11:18 [PATCH v1 0/5] Reenable might_sleep() checks for might_fault() David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] uaccess: add pagefault_count to thread_info David Hildenbrand
2014-12-08 13:12   ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-12-08 13:24     ` David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18 ` [PATCH v1 2/5] uaccess: count pagefault_disable() levels in pagefault_count David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18 ` [PATCH v1 3/5] mm, uaccess: trigger might_sleep() in might_fault() when pagefaults are disabled David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:45   ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2014-12-05 11:46     ` David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 12:08       ` David Laight
2014-12-05 13:30         ` David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18 ` [PATCH v1 4/5] uaccess: clearify that uaccess may only sleep if pagefaults are not disabled David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18 ` [PATCH v1 5/5] uaccess: CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEFAULT_COUNT to debug pagefault_count David Hildenbrand

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