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IB: Put rlimit accounting struct in struct ib_umem
authorRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:20:28 +0000 (20:20 -0700)
committerRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Wed, 9 May 2007 01:00:37 +0000 (18:00 -0700)
commit1bf66a30421ca772820f489d88c16d0c430d6a67
treeb1ab223e6908d772bcad7f9bc3382c33ad5a4490
parentf7c6a7b5d59980b076abbf2ceeb8735591290285
IB: Put rlimit accounting struct in struct ib_umem

When memory pinned with ib_umem_get() is released, ib_umem_release()
needs to subtract the amount of memory being unpinned from
mm->locked_vm.  However, ib_umem_release() may be called with
mm->mmap_sem already held for writing if the memory is being released
as part of an munmap() call, so it is sometimes necessary to defer
this accounting into a workqueue.

However, the work struct used to defer this accounting is dynamically
allocated before it is queued, so there is the possibility of failing
that allocation.  If the allocation fails, then ib_umem_release has no
choice except to bail out and leave the process with a permanently
elevated locked_vm.

Fix this by allocating the structure to defer accounting as part of
the original struct ib_umem, so there's no possibility of failing a
later allocation if creating the struct ib_umem and pinning memory
succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
include/rdma/ib_umem.h