mmap locking API: convert nested write lock sites

Add API for nested write locks and convert the few call sites doing that.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ying Han <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/um/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index 62262c5c7785..17ddd4edf875 100644
--- a/arch/um/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/mm_types.h>
+#include <linux/mmap_lock.h>
 
 #include <asm/mmu.h>
 
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ static inline void activate_mm(struct mm_struct *old, struct mm_struct *new)
 	 * when the new ->mm is used for the first time.
 	 */
 	__switch_mm(&new->context.id);
-	down_write_nested(&new->mmap_sem, 1);
+	mmap_write_lock_nested(new, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
 	uml_setup_stubs(new);
 	mmap_write_unlock(new);
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/mmap_lock.h b/include/linux/mmap_lock.h
index 97ac53b66052..a757cb30ae77 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmap_lock.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmap_lock.h
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ static inline void mmap_write_lock(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 }
 
+static inline void mmap_write_lock_nested(struct mm_struct *mm, int subclass)
+{
+	down_write_nested(&mm->mmap_sem, subclass);
+}
+
 static inline int mmap_write_lock_killable(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	return down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem);
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index d61751ba10dc..142b23645d82 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	/*
 	 * Not linked in yet - no deadlock potential:
 	 */
-	down_write_nested(&mm->mmap_sem, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+	mmap_write_lock_nested(mm, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
 
 	/* No ordering required: file already has been exposed. */
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(mm->exe_file, get_mm_exe_file(oldmm));