[PATCH v3 1/2] aio: change exit_aio() to load mm->ioctx_table once and avoid rcu_read_lock()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Apr 30 2014 - 13:03:08 EST


On 04/30, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
> > - ctx->mmap_size = 0;
> > -
> > - kill_ioctx(mm, ctx, NULL);
> > + if (ctx) {
> > + ctx->mmap_size = 0;
> > + kill_ioctx(mm, ctx, NULL);
> > + }
>
> Rather than indenting and moving the two lines changing mmap_size and the
> kill_ioctx() call, why not just do "if (!ctx) ... continue;"? That reduces
> the number of lines changed and avoid excessive indentation.

OK. To me the code looks better/simpler with "if (ctx)", but this is subjective
of course, I won't argue.

The patch still removes the empty line between mmap_size = 0 and kill_ioctx(),
we reset mmap_size only for kill_ioctx(). But feel free to remove this change.

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Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] aio: change exit_aio() to load mm->ioctx_table once and avoid rcu_read_lock()

1. We can read ->ioctx_table only once and we do not read rcu_read_lock()
or even rcu_dereference().

This mm has no users, nobody else can play with ->ioctx_table. Otherwise
the code is buggy anyway, if we need rcu_read_lock() in a loop because
->ioctx_table can be updated then kfree(table) is obviously wrong.

2. Update the comment. "exit_mmap(mm) is coming" is the good reason to avoid
munmap(), but another reason is that we simply can't do vm_munmap() unless
current->mm == mm and this is not true in general, the caller is mmput().

3. We do not really need to nullify mm->ioctx_table before return, probably
the current code does this to catch the potential problems. But in this
case RCU_INIT_POINTER(NULL) looks better.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/aio.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++--------------------------
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 79b7e69..b67f3e2 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -791,40 +791,30 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_on_sync_kiocb);
*/
void exit_aio(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- struct kioctx_table *table;
- struct kioctx *ctx;
- unsigned i = 0;
-
- while (1) {
- rcu_read_lock();
- table = rcu_dereference(mm->ioctx_table);
-
- do {
- if (!table || i >= table->nr) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
- rcu_assign_pointer(mm->ioctx_table, NULL);
- if (table)
- kfree(table);
- return;
- }
+ struct kioctx_table *table = rcu_dereference_raw(mm->ioctx_table);
+ int i;

- ctx = table->table[i++];
- } while (!ctx);
+ if (!table)
+ return;

- rcu_read_unlock();
+ for (i = 0; i < table->nr; ++i) {
+ struct kioctx *ctx = table->table[i];

+ if (!ctx)
+ continue;
/*
- * We don't need to bother with munmap() here -
- * exit_mmap(mm) is coming and it'll unmap everything.
- * Since aio_free_ring() uses non-zero ->mmap_size
- * as indicator that it needs to unmap the area,
- * just set it to 0; aio_free_ring() is the only
- * place that uses ->mmap_size, so it's safe.
+ * We don't need to bother with munmap() here - exit_mmap(mm)
+ * is coming and it'll unmap everything. And we simply can't,
+ * this is not necessarily our ->mm.
+ * Since kill_ioctx() uses non-zero ->mmap_size as indicator
+ * that it needs to unmap the area, just set it to 0.
*/
ctx->mmap_size = 0;
-
kill_ioctx(mm, ctx, NULL);
}
+
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(mm->ioctx_table, NULL);
+ kfree(table);
}

static void put_reqs_available(struct kioctx *ctx, unsigned nr)
--
1.5.5.1


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