uprobes: Change build_map_info() to try kmalloc(GFP_NOWAIT) first
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:43:36 +0000 (17:43 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:10:44 +0000 (09:10 +0200)
commit7a5bfb66b07f22d2429db776da7bb8b57bfb5cff
treeaa6a419726f99052171f05b004db45692fef3315
parent268720903f87e0b84b161626c4447b81671b5d18
uprobes: Change build_map_info() to try kmalloc(GFP_NOWAIT) first

build_map_info() doesn't allocate the memory under i_mmap_mutex
to avoid the deadlock with page reclaim. But it can try
GFP_NOWAIT first, it should work in the likely case and thus we
almost never need the pre-alloc-and-retry path.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120615154336.GA9588@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/events/uprobes.c