[v2,1/7] proc/kcore: don't grab lock for kclist_add()

Commit Message

Omar Sandoval July 13, 2018, 12:09 a.m. UTC

From: Omar Sandoval <[e-mail]>

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.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <[e-mail]>
---
 fs/proc/kcore.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index 66c373230e60..ddeeb3a5a015 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@  static LIST_HEAD(kclist_head);
 static DEFINE_RWLOCK(kclist_lock);
 static int kcore_need_update = 1;
 
+/* This doesn't grab kclist_lock, so it should only be used at init time. */
 void
 kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size, int type)
 {
@@ -69,9 +70,7 @@  kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size, int type)
 	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)