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| author | Vegard Nossum | 2017-02-27 14:30:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2017-02-27 18:43:48 -0800 |
| commit | f1f1007644ffc8051a4c11427d58b1967ae7b75a (patch) | |
| tree | e7e590cb1baa494b963d81b967a3f98d3c56f33e /include | |
| parent | 522b837c672eba9e9fb69f9f52bced0256dc6697 (diff) | |
mm: add new mmgrab() helper
Apart from adding the helper function itself, the rest of the kernel is
converted mechanically using:
git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_count' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)->mm_count);/mmgrab\(\1\);/'
git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_count' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)\.mm_count);/mmgrab\(\&\1\);/'
This is needed for a later patch that hooks into the helper, but might
be a worthwhile cleanup on its own.
(Michal Hocko provided most of the kerneldoc comment.)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161218123229.22952-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 451e241f32c5..7cfa5546c840 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2904,6 +2904,28 @@ static inline unsigned long sigsp(unsigned long sp, struct ksignal *ksig) */ extern struct mm_struct * mm_alloc(void); +/** + * mmgrab() - Pin a &struct mm_struct. + * @mm: The &struct mm_struct to pin. + * + * Make sure that @mm will not get freed even after the owning task + * exits. This doesn't guarantee that the associated address space + * will still exist later on and mmget_not_zero() has to be used before + * accessing it. + * + * This is a preferred way to to pin @mm for a longer/unbounded amount + * of time. + * + * Use mmdrop() to release the reference acquired by mmgrab(). + * + * See also <Documentation/vm/active_mm.txt> for an in-depth explanation + * of &mm_struct.mm_count vs &mm_struct.mm_users. + */ +static inline void mmgrab(struct mm_struct *mm) +{ + atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count); +} + /* mmdrop drops the mm and the page tables */ extern void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *); static inline void mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm) |