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

Message ID 20220409073846.22286-2-linmiaohe@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series A few cleanup and fixup patches for migration | expand

Commit Message

Miaohe Lin April 9, 2022, 7:38 a.m. UTC
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@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
---
 mm/migrate.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig April 11, 2022, 2:09 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 03:38:43PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> 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@bytedance.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>

Looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Huang, Ying April 12, 2022, 2:07 a.m. UTC | #2
On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 15:38 +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> 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@bytedance.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> ---
>  mm/migrate.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index a3d8c2be2631..d8aae6c75990 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1907,17 +1907,16 @@ 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))

Why do you ignore our discussion for the previous version?

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/8735ju7as9.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com/

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying
Miaohe Lin April 12, 2022, 3:21 a.m. UTC | #3
On 2022/4/12 10:07, ying.huang@intel.com wrote:
> On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 15:38 +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> 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@bytedance.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  mm/migrate.c | 3 +--
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
>> index a3d8c2be2631..d8aae6c75990 100644
>> --- a/mm/migrate.c
>> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
>> @@ -1907,17 +1907,16 @@ 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))
> 
> Why do you ignore our discussion for the previous version?
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/8735ju7as9.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com/
> 

Sorry for confusing. I remember this patch is pending for verify. The reason I post this series is that
I want to move the other patches in this series forward while this patch is still pending for verify.

Thanks.

> Best Regards,
> Huang, Ying
> 
> 
> .
>
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diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index a3d8c2be2631..d8aae6c75990 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1907,17 +1907,16 @@  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))