Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unintentional voluntary preemption in get_mmap_lock_carefully

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Aug 20 2023 - 08:49:06 EST


On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 at 14:41, Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/20/23, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Except now we search the exception tables every time we call it.
> > The now-deleted comment (c2508ec5a58d) suggests this is slow:

Yeah, that was the intent.

But I agree that we should basically avoid trying to sleep just as we
got the lock.

> My first patch looked like this:

Well, that's disgusting and strange.

> - might_sleep();
> +#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP)
> + __might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__);
> +#endif

Why would you have that strange #ifdef? __might_sleep() just goes away
without that debug option anyway.

But without that odd ifdef, I think it's fine.

Linus