tree 1f405bb4f0e800ed102184f09143421bfb332dcd
parent df865e8337c397471b95f51017fea559bc8abb4a
author Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> 1534913691 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1534960366 -0700

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>