Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm/migration: reduce the rcu lock duration

From: ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon Apr 11 2022 - 22:07:44 EST


On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 15:38 +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> rcu_read_lock is required by grabbing the task refcount but it's not
> needed for ptrace_may_access. So we could release the rcu lock after
> task refcount is successfully grabbed to reduce the rcu holding time.
>
> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/migrate.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index a3d8c2be2631..d8aae6c75990 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1907,17 +1907,16 @@ static struct mm_struct *find_mm_struct(pid_t pid, nodemask_t *mem_nodes)
>   return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
>   }
>   get_task_struct(task);
> + rcu_read_unlock();
>  
>
>   /*
>   * Check if this process has the right to modify the specified
>   * process. Use the regular "ptrace_may_access()" checks.
>   */
>   if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS)) {
> - rcu_read_unlock();
>   mm = ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
>   goto out;
>   }
> - rcu_read_unlock();
>  
>
>   mm = ERR_PTR(security_task_movememory(task));
>   if (IS_ERR(mm))

Why do you ignore our discussion for the previous version?

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/8735ju7as9.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying