From 7be6d991bca63bbcdc5bc3b09789f367a3486537 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Goddard=20Rosa?= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:47:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] pid: tighten pidmap spinlock critical section by removing kfree() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Avoid calling kfree() under pidmap spinlock, calling it afterwards. Normally kfree() is fast, but sometimes it can be slow, so avoid calling it under the spinlock if we can do it. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/pid.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index d3f722d20f9c..55fd5900bac8 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -141,11 +141,12 @@ static int alloc_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns) * installing it: */ spin_lock_irq(&pidmap_lock); - if (map->page) - kfree(page); - else + if (!map->page) { map->page = page; + page = NULL; + } spin_unlock_irq(&pidmap_lock); + kfree(page); if (unlikely(!map->page)) break; } -- 2.20.1