• Peter Zijlstra's avatar
    sched: Clean up active_mm reference counting · 139d025c
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    The current active_mm reference counting is confusing and sub-optimal.
    
    Rewrite the code to explicitly consider the 4 separate cases:
    
        user -> user
    
    	When switching between two user tasks, all we need to consider
    	is switch_mm().
    
        user -> kernel
    
    	When switching from a user task to a kernel task (which
    	doesn't have an associated mm) we retain the last mm in our
    	active_mm. Increment a reference count on active_mm.
    
      kernel -> kernel
    
    	When switching between kernel threads, all we need to do is
    	pass along the active_mm reference.
    
      kernel -> user
    
    	When switching between a kernel and user task, we must switch
    	from the last active_mm to the next mm, hoping of course that
    	these are the same. Decrement a reference on the active_mm.
    
    The code keeps a different order, because as you'll note, both 'to
    user' cases require switch_mm().
    
    And where the old code would increment/decrement for the 'kernel ->
    kernel' case, the new code observes this is a neutral operation and
    avoids touching the reference count.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
    Cc: luto@kernel.org
    139d025c
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