linux/kernel/events
Oleg Nesterov 268720903f uprobes: Rework register_for_each_vma() to make it O(n)
Currently register_for_each_vma() is O(n ** 2) + O(n ** 3),
every time find_next_vma_info() "restarts" the
vma_prio_tree_foreach() loop and each iteration rechecks the
whole try_list. This also means that try_list can grow
"indefinitely" if register/unregister races with munmap/mmap
activity even if the number of mapping is bounded at any time.

With this patch register_for_each_vma() builds the list of
mm/vaddr structures only once and does install_breakpoint() for
each entry.

We do not care about the new mappings which can be created after
build_map_info() drops mapping->i_mmap_mutex, uprobe_mmap()
should do its work.

Note that we do not allocate map_info under i_mmap_mutex, this
can deadlock with page reclaim (but see the next patch). So we
use 2 lists, "curr" which we are going to return, and "prev"
which holds the already allocated memory. The main loop deques
the entry from "prev" (initially it is empty), and if "prev"
becomes empty again it counts the number of entries we need to
pre-allocate outside of i_mmap_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120615154333.GA9581@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-16 09:10:43 +02:00
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callchain.c perf: Don't call release_callchain_buffers() if allocation fails 2012-01-21 09:33:41 +01:00
core.c perf: Remove duplicate invocation on perf_event_for_each 2012-05-31 14:01:00 -03:00
hw_breakpoint.c Merge branch 'x86/cleanups' into perf/uprobes 2012-03-13 16:33:03 +01:00
internal.h Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2011-12-06 06:43:49 +01:00
Makefile uprobes: Move to kernel/events/ 2012-02-22 11:08:00 +01:00
ring_buffer.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-01-08 13:21:22 -08:00
uprobes.c uprobes: Rework register_for_each_vma() to make it O(n) 2012-06-16 09:10:43 +02:00