proc/kcore: don't grab lock for memory hotplug notifier
authorOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 04:54:55 +0000 (21:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:52:46 +0000 (10:52 -0700)
commitbf53183164dbba00b342df7d2215b33007ed83ed
tree679d8cf52528ddbcffbbf773703fae7fa3225a61
parenta8dd9c4df18edc873d244790d163564a5d17626b
proc/kcore: don't grab lock for memory hotplug notifier

The memory hotplug notifier kcore_callback() only needs kclist_lock to
prevent races with __kcore_update_ram(), but we can easily eliminate that
race by using an atomic xchg() in __kcore_update_ram().  This is
preparation for converting kclist_lock to an rwsem.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a4bc89f4dbde8b5b2ea309f7b4fb6a85fe29df2.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/kcore.c