Re: [PATCH 06/11] dax: Fix race between simultaneous faults

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Wed Aug 05 2015 - 07:43:15 EST


On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 03:58:00PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index b94b587..5f46350 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2426,11 +2426,16 @@ void unmap_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> details.last_index = ULONG_MAX;
>
>
> - /* DAX uses i_mmap_lock to serialise file truncate vs page fault */
> - i_mmap_lock_write(mapping);
> + /*
> + * DAX already holds i_mmap_lock to serialise file truncate vs
> + * page fault and page fault vs page fault.
> + */
> + if (!IS_DAX(mapping->host))
> + i_mmap_lock_write(mapping);
> if (unlikely(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&mapping->i_mmap)))
> unmap_mapping_range_tree(&mapping->i_mmap, &details);
> - i_mmap_unlock_write(mapping);
> + if (!IS_DAX(mapping->host))
> + i_mmap_unlock_write(mapping);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(unmap_mapping_range);

Huh? What protects mapping->i_mmap here? I don't see anything up by stack
taking the lock.

--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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