Re: [RFC v8 PATCH 3/5] mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in munmap

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Wed Aug 22 2018 - 07:20:05 EST


On 08/15/2018 08:49 PM, Yang Shi wrote:
> + downgrade_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +
> + /* Zap mappings with read mmap_sem */
> + unmap_region(mm, start_vma, prev, start, end);
> +
> + arch_unmap(mm, start_vma, start, end);

Hmm, did you check that all architectures' arch_unmap() is safe with
read mmap_sem instead of write mmap_sem? E.g. x86 does
mpx_notify_unmap() there where I would be far from sure at first glance...

> + remove_vma_list(mm, start_vma);
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);