On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 06:51:05AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    Are you saying that the original bug report may not actually be a
>    problem?  Is ms->rss actually protected in _all_ of the right
>    places, but people got confused because of the syntactic sugar?
> 
> I don't know if all of them are ok, most are.
> 

Would this do? This is a subset of Davej's patch. I also noted that
fs/{exec.c,binfmt_aout.c,binfmt_elf.c} modifies rss without holding
the lock. I think exec.c needs it, but am at a loss whether the 
binfmt_* does too. The second patch below adds the lock to fs/exec.c.

Comments?

diff -ura linux-240-t10-clean/mm/memory.c linux/mm/memory.c
--- linux-240-t10-clean/mm/memory.c     Sat Nov  4 23:27:17 2000
+++ linux/mm/memory.c   Sun Nov  5 00:13:59 2000
@@ -369,7 +369,6 @@
                address = (address + PGDIR_SIZE) & PGDIR_MASK;
                dir++;
        } while (address && (address < end));
-       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        /*
         * Update rss for the mm_struct (not necessarily current->mm)
         * Notice that rss is an unsigned long.
@@ -378,6 +377,7 @@
                mm->rss -= freed;
        else
                mm->rss = 0;
+       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 }
 
 
@@ -1074,7 +1074,9 @@
                flush_icache_page(vma, page);
        }
 
+       spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        mm->rss++;
+       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 
        pte = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
 
@@ -1113,7 +1115,9 @@
                        return -1;
                clear_user_highpage(page, addr);
                entry = pte_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot)));
+               spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
                mm->rss++;
+               spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
                flush_page_to_ram(page);
        }
        set_pte(page_table, entry);
@@ -1152,7 +1156,9 @@
                return 0;
        if (new_page == NOPAGE_OOM)
                return -1;
+       spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        ++mm->rss;
+       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        /*
         * This silly early PAGE_DIRTY setting removes a race
         * due to the bad i386 page protection. But it's valid
diff -ura linux-240-t10-clean/mm/mmap.c linux/mm/mmap.c
--- linux-240-t10-clean/mm/mmap.c       Sat Nov  4 23:27:17 2000
+++ linux/mm/mmap.c     Sat Nov  4 23:53:49 2000
@@ -843,8 +843,8 @@
        spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        mpnt = mm->mmap;
        mm->mmap = mm->mmap_avl = mm->mmap_cache = NULL;
-       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        mm->rss = 0;
+       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        mm->total_vm = 0;
        mm->locked_vm = 0;
        while (mpnt) {
diff -ura linux-240-t10-clean/mm/swapfile.c linux/mm/swapfile.c
--- linux-240-t10-clean/mm/swapfile.c   Sat Nov  4 23:27:17 2000
+++ linux/mm/swapfile.c Sun Nov  5 00:19:15 2000
@@ -231,7 +231,9 @@
        set_pte(dir, pte_mkdirty(mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot)));
        swap_free(entry);
        get_page(page);
+       spin_lock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
        ++vma->vm_mm->rss;
+       spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
 }
 
 static inline void unuse_pmd(struct vm_area_struct * vma, pmd_t *dir,
diff -ura linux-240-t10-clean/mm/vmscan.c linux/mm/vmscan.c
--- linux-240-t10-clean/mm/vmscan.c     Sat Nov  4 23:27:17 2000
+++ linux/mm/vmscan.c   Sun Nov  5 00:19:48 2000
@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@
                set_pte(page_table, swp_entry_to_pte(entry));
 drop_pte:
                UnlockPage(page);
+               spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
                mm->rss--;
+               spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
                flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
                deactivate_page(page);
                page_cache_release(page);



Second patch:

--- linux-240-t10-clean/fs/exec.c       Sat Nov  4 23:27:14 2000
+++ linux/fs/exec.c     Sat Nov  4 23:55:37 2000
@@ -324,7 +324,9 @@
                struct page *page = bprm->page[i];
                if (page) {
                        bprm->page[i] = NULL;
+                       spin_lock(mm->page_table_lock);
                        current->mm->rss++;
+                       spin_unlock(mm->page_table_lock);
                        put_dirty_page(current,page,stack_base);
                }
                stack_base += PAGE_SIZE;

-- 
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