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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2007-06-27 14:09:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-06-28 11:34:53 -0700 |
| commit | 30acbabae38793c9c9acace4de5b1c1889570768 (patch) | |
| tree | c9c1741f04382803475c113865deed065e1ca0cf /mm | |
| parent | 172d0496cd22c98ee2e4238821fa309c01685f3a (diff) | |
mm: kill validate_anon_vma to avoid mapcount BUG
validate_anon_vma gave a useful check on the integrity of the anon_vma list
when Andrea was developing obj rmap; but it was not enabled in SLES9
itself, nor in mainline, until Nick changed commented-out RMAP_DEBUG to
configurable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM in 2.6.17. Now Petr Vandrovec reports that
its BUG_ON(mapcount > 100000) can easily crash a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y system.
That limit was just an arbitrary number to protect against an infinite
loop. We could raise it to something enormous (depending on sizeof struct
vma and size of memory?); but I rather think validate_anon_vma has outlived
its usefulness, and is better just removed - which gives a magnificent
performance boost to anything like Petr's test program ;)
Of course, a very long anon_vma list is bad news for preemption latency,
and I believe there has been one recent report of such: let's not forget
that, but validate_anon_vma only makes it worse not better.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/rmap.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 850165d32b7a..61e492597a0b 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -53,24 +53,6 @@ struct kmem_cache *anon_vma_cachep; -static inline void validate_anon_vma(struct vm_area_struct *find_vma) -{ -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM - struct anon_vma *anon_vma = find_vma->anon_vma; - struct vm_area_struct *vma; - unsigned int mapcount = 0; - int found = 0; - - list_for_each_entry(vma, &anon_vma->head, anon_vma_node) { - mapcount++; - BUG_ON(mapcount > 100000); - if (vma == find_vma) - found = 1; - } - BUG_ON(!found); -#endif -} - /* This must be called under the mmap_sem. */ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { @@ -121,10 +103,8 @@ void __anon_vma_link(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { struct anon_vma *anon_vma = vma->anon_vma; - if (anon_vma) { + if (anon_vma) list_add_tail(&vma->anon_vma_node, &anon_vma->head); - validate_anon_vma(vma); - } } void anon_vma_link(struct vm_area_struct *vma) @@ -134,7 +114,6 @@ void anon_vma_link(struct vm_area_struct *vma) if (anon_vma) { spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock); list_add_tail(&vma->anon_vma_node, &anon_vma->head); - validate_anon_vma(vma); spin_unlock(&anon_vma->lock); } } @@ -148,7 +127,6 @@ void anon_vma_unlink(struct vm_area_struct *vma) return; spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock); - validate_anon_vma(vma); list_del(&vma->anon_vma_node); /* We must garbage collect the anon_vma if it's empty */ |