x86/mm: Use mm_alloc() in poking_init()

commit 3f4c8211d9 upstream.

Instead of duplicating init_mm, allocate a fresh mm. The advantage is
that mm_alloc() has much simpler dependencies. Additionally it makes
more conceptual sense, init_mm has no (and must not have) user state
to duplicate.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201057.816175235@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Peter Zijlstra 2022-10-25 21:38:21 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent d972c8c08f
commit 9ae15aaff3
3 changed files with 1 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ void __init poking_init(void)
spinlock_t *ptl;
pte_t *ptep;
poking_mm = copy_init_mm();
poking_mm = mm_alloc();
BUG_ON(!poking_mm);
/* Xen PV guests need the PGD to be pinned. */

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@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ extern void exit_itimers(struct task_struct *);
extern pid_t kernel_clone(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs);
struct task_struct *create_io_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, int node);
struct task_struct *fork_idle(int);
struct mm_struct *copy_init_mm(void);
extern pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags);
extern pid_t user_mode_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags);
extern long kernel_wait4(pid_t, int __user *, int, struct rusage *);

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@ -2600,11 +2600,6 @@ struct task_struct * __init fork_idle(int cpu)
return task;
}
struct mm_struct *copy_init_mm(void)
{
return dup_mm(NULL, &init_mm);
}
/*
* This is like kernel_clone(), but shaved down and tailored to just
* creating io_uring workers. It returns a created task, or an error pointer.