On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:32:08AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 05:11:45PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > binder has used write-side mmap_sem semaphore to release memory > > mapped at address space of the process. However, right lock to > > release pages is down_read, not down_write because page table lock > > already protects the race for parallel freeing. > > > > Please do not use mmap_sem write-side lock which is well known > > contented lock. > > > > Cc: Todd Kjos <tk...@google.com> > > Cc: Martijn Coenen <m...@android.com> > > Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <a...@android.com> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> > > --- > > drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 4 ++-- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > Is this just needed for the recent binder changes that are in > linux-next, or for older kernels as well?
It has been there for several years but no need to fix older kernels because down_write of mmap_sem is technically not a bug to stop the working of binder. Rather than, it's just abuse of the lock so it's okay to fix only recent kernel. Thanks.
