From: Manfred Spraul <manfreds@colorfullife.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: locking question: do_mmap(), do_munmap()
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 14:48:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37FF39B7.55532FD9@colorfullife.com> (raw)
which semaphores/spinlocks protect do_mmap() and do_munmap()?
do_mmap():
I wrote a test patch, and I found out that some (all?) callers call
lock_kernel(), but that mm->mmap_sem is _NOT ACQUIRED_. Eg
sys_uselib()-> do_load_elf_??() -> do_mmap().
do_munmap():
???? I think here is a race:
sys_munmap() doesn't call lock_kernel(), it only acquires mm->mmap_sem.
do_mmap() internally calls do_munmap(), ie with the kernel lock, but
without mm->mmap_sem.
What about adding debugging runtime checks to these function?
ie #defines which call down_trylock() and spin_trylock() and oops on
missing locks?
We could define them to "(void)0" before 2.4.
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Manfred
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next reply other threads:[~1999-10-09 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-09 12:48 Manfred Spraul [this message]
1999-10-09 13:12 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-09 13:17 ` Manfred Spraul
1999-10-09 13:38 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-09 16:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-10-10 13:05 ` Manfred Spraul
1999-10-11 15:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 15:05 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910101713010.364-100000@alpha.random>
1999-10-10 15:52 ` Manfred Spraul
1999-10-10 16:07 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-10 16:25 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-10 16:45 ` Manfred Spraul
1999-10-10 17:25 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-10 17:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-10-10 17:48 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-10 18:42 ` Manfred Spraul
1999-10-10 19:03 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-10 21:31 ` Manfred Spraul
1999-10-10 21:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-10-10 22:34 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-10 23:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-10-11 15:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 16:05 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-11 18:02 ` Manfred Spraul
1999-10-11 19:07 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-10-11 22:23 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-13 1:25 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-10-13 7:32 ` Manfred Spraul
1999-10-15 9:58 ` Ralf Baechle
1999-10-15 17:50 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-10-13 10:45 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 20:15 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 21:14 ` Manfred Spraul
1999-10-11 21:37 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-11 22:13 ` Manfred Spraul
1999-10-11 22:22 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 23:01 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-13 10:16 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 20:13 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 21:40 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-11 22:20 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 22:31 ` Alexander Viro
1999-10-13 10:25 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 15:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 15:43 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-10 16:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-10-11 15:41 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 15:52 ` Alexander Viro
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