linux/mm
Nick Piggin 14bac5acfd mm: xip/ext2 fix block allocation race
XIP can call into get_xip_mem concurrently with the same file,offset with
create=1.  This usually maps down to get_block, which expects the page
lock to prevent such a situation.  This causes ext2 to explode for one
reason or another.

Serialise those calls for the moment.  For common usages today, I suspect
get_xip_mem rarely is called to create new blocks.  In future as XIP
technologies evolve we might need to look at which operations require
scalability, and rework the locking to suit.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20 15:40:32 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c
backing-dev.c
bootmem.c bootmem: fix aligning of node-relative indexes and offsets 2008-08-20 15:40:31 -07:00
bounce.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
filemap_xip.c mm: xip/ext2 fix block allocation race 2008-08-20 15:40:32 -07:00
filemap.c
fremap.c
highmem.c
hugetlb.c allocate structures for reservation tracking in hugetlbfs outside of spinlocks v2 2008-08-12 16:07:28 -07:00
internal.h
Kconfig mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it 2008-08-12 17:52:53 +10:00
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile
memcontrol.c memcg: fix oops in mem_cgroup_shrink_usage 2008-08-12 16:07:28 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c
memory.c
mempolicy.c do_migrate_pages(): remove unused variable 2008-08-12 16:07:29 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'core/locking' into core/urgent 2008-08-12 00:11:49 +02:00
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() 2008-08-14 22:59:43 +10:00
page_alloc.c page allocator: use no-panic variant of alloc_bootmem() in alloc_large_system_hash() 2008-08-12 16:07:27 -07:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c
pagewalk.c
pdflush.c
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c mm: dirty page tracking race fix 2008-08-20 15:40:32 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c
slab.c
slob.c
slub.c
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c mm/sparse.c: removed duplicated include 2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: show free swap as signed 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
swap.c
swapfile.c
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c
util.c mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it 2008-08-12 17:52:53 +10:00
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c
vmstat.c