From e81ce85f960c2e26efb5d0802d56c34533edb1bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joonsoo Kim Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:07:32 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm, vmalloc: iterate vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist in vread/vwrite() Now, when we hold a vmap_area_lock, va->vm can't be discarded. So we can safely access to va->vm when iterating a vmap_area_list with holding a vmap_area_lock. With this property, change iterating vmlist codes in vread/vwrite() to iterating vmap_area_list. There is a little difference relate to lock, because vmlist_lock is mutex, but, vmap_area_lock is spin_lock. It may introduce a spinning overhead during vread/vwrite() is executing. But, these are debug-oriented functions, so this overhead is not real problem for common case. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Atsushi Kumagai Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Dave Anderson Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed