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

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Mon Apr 11 2022 - 23:21:46 EST


On 2022/4/12 10:07, ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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/
>

Sorry for confusing. I remember this patch is pending for verify. The reason I post this series is that
I want to move the other patches in this series forward while this patch is still pending for verify.

Thanks.

> Best Regards,
> Huang, Ying
>
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