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pid: tighten pidmap spinlock critical section by removing kfree() 

Avoid calling kfree() under pidmap spinlock, calling it afterwards.

Normally kfree() is fast, but sometimes it can be slow, so avoid
calling it under the spinlock if we can do it.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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André Goddard Rosa 2009-12-15 16:47:39 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 698ba7b5a3
commit 7be6d991bc
1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -141,11 +141,12 @@ static int alloc_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
* installing it:
*/
spin_lock_irq(&pidmap_lock);
if (map->page)
kfree(page);
else
if (!map->page) {
map->page = page;
page = NULL;
}
spin_unlock_irq(&pidmap_lock);
kfree(page);
if (unlikely(!map->page))
break;
}