[PATCH v2 1/4] mm/migration: reduce the rcu lock duration

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Mon Apr 25 2022 - 09:27:51 EST


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>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/migrate.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index b2678279eb43..b779646665fe 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1902,17 +1902,16 @@ 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))
--
2.23.0