b123d09304
The 8782fb61cc ("mm: pagewalk: Fix race between unmap and page walker")
introduces an assertion to walk_page_range_novma() to make all the users
of page table walker is safe. However, the race only exists for walking
the user page tables. And it is ridiculous to hold a particular user mmap
write lock against the changes of the kernel page tables. So only assert
at least mmap read lock when walking the kernel page tables. And some
users matching this case could downgrade to a mmap read lock to relief the
contention of mmap lock of init_mm, it will be nicer in hugetlb (only
holding mmap read lock) in the next patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231127084645.27017-2-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.