proc/kcore: don't grab lock for kclist_add()
Patch series "/proc/kcore improvements", v4.
This series makes a few improvements to /proc/kcore. It fixes a couple of
small issues in v3 but is otherwise the same. Patches 1, 2, and 3 are
prep patches. Patch 4 is a fix/cleanup. Patch 5 is another prep patch.
Patches 6 and 7 are optimizations to ->read(). Patch 8 makes it possible
to enable CRASH_CORE on any architecture, which is needed for patch 9.
Patch 9 adds vmcoreinfo to /proc/kcore.
This patch (of 9):
kclist_add() is only called at init time, so there's no point in grabbing
any locks. We're also going to replace the rwlock with a rwsem, which we
don't want to try grabbing during early boot.
While we're here, mark kclist_add() with __init so that we'll get a
warning if it's called from non-init code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/98208db1faf167aa8b08eebfa968d95c70527739.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index 66c37323..b0b9a76 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -62,16 +62,15 @@ static LIST_HEAD(kclist_head);
static DEFINE_RWLOCK(kclist_lock);
static int kcore_need_update = 1;
-void
-kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size, int type)
+/* This doesn't grab kclist_lock, so it should only be used at init time. */
+void __init kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size,
+ int type)
{
new->addr = (unsigned long)addr;
new->size = size;
new->type = type;
- write_lock(&kclist_lock);
list_add_tail(&new->list, &kclist_head);
- write_unlock(&kclist_lock);
}
static size_t get_kcore_size(int *nphdr, size_t *elf_buflen)
diff --git a/include/linux/kcore.h b/include/linux/kcore.h
index 8de55e4..c20f296 100644
--- a/include/linux/kcore.h
+++ b/include/linux/kcore.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct vmcoredd_node {
};
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_KCORE
-extern void kclist_add(struct kcore_list *, void *, size_t, int type);
+void __init kclist_add(struct kcore_list *, void *, size_t, int type);
#else
static inline
void kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size, int type)
