1. 09 4月, 2015 2 次提交
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      locking/mutex: Further simplify mutex_spin_on_owner() · 01ac33c1
      Jason Low 提交于
      Similar to what Linus suggested for rwsem_spin_on_owner(), in
      mutex_spin_on_owner() instead of having while (true) and
      breaking out of the spin loop on lock->owner != owner, we can
      have the loop directly check for while (lock->owner == owner) to
      improve the readability of the code.
      
      It also shrinks the code a bit:
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
         3721       0       0    3721     e89 mutex.o.before
         3705       0       0    3705     e79 mutex.o.after
      Signed-off-by: NJason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
      Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428521960-5268-2-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
      [ Added code generation info. ]
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      01ac33c1
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      Copy the kernel module data from user space in chunks · 3afe9f84
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Unlike most (all?) other copies from user space, kernel module loading
      is almost unlimited in size.  So we do a potentially huge
      "copy_from_user()" when we copy the module data from user space to the
      kernel buffer, which can be a latency concern when preemption is
      disabled (or voluntary).
      
      Also, because 'copy_from_user()' clears the tail of the kernel buffer on
      failures, even a *failed* copy can end up wasting a lot of time.
      
      Normally neither of these are concerns in real life, but they do trigger
      when doing stress-testing with trinity.  Running in a VM seems to add
      its own overheadm causing trinity module load testing to even trigger
      the watchdog.
      
      The simple fix is to just chunk up the module loading, so that it never
      tries to copy insanely big areas in one go.  That bounds the latency,
      and also the amount of (unnecessarily, in this case) cleared memory for
      the failure case.
      Reported-by: NSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3afe9f84
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