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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2006-10-19 23:29:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-20 10:26:44 -0700
commit82591e6ea234762eeaa8b2337fe060ed438c18dc (patch)
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[PATCH] mm: more commenting on lock ordering
Clarify lockorder comments now that sys_msync dropps mmap_sem before calling do_fsync. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index a9136d8b7577..d8a842a586db 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -21,27 +21,21 @@
* Lock ordering in mm:
*
* inode->i_mutex (while writing or truncating, not reading or faulting)
- * inode->i_alloc_sem
- *
- * When a page fault occurs in writing from user to file, down_read
- * of mmap_sem nests within i_mutex; in sys_msync, i_mutex nests within
- * down_read of mmap_sem; i_mutex and down_write of mmap_sem are never
- * taken together; in truncation, i_mutex is taken outermost.
- *
- * mm->mmap_sem
- * page->flags PG_locked (lock_page)
- * mapping->i_mmap_lock
- * anon_vma->lock
- * mm->page_table_lock or pte_lock
- * zone->lru_lock (in mark_page_accessed, isolate_lru_page)
- * swap_lock (in swap_duplicate, swap_info_get)
- * mmlist_lock (in mmput, drain_mmlist and others)
- * mapping->private_lock (in __set_page_dirty_buffers)
- * inode_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty)
- * sb_lock (within inode_lock in fs/fs-writeback.c)
- * mapping->tree_lock (widely used, in set_page_dirty,
- * in arch-dependent flush_dcache_mmap_lock,
- * within inode_lock in __sync_single_inode)
+ * inode->i_alloc_sem (vmtruncate_range)
+ * mm->mmap_sem
+ * page->flags PG_locked (lock_page)
+ * mapping->i_mmap_lock
+ * anon_vma->lock
+ * mm->page_table_lock or pte_lock
+ * zone->lru_lock (in mark_page_accessed, isolate_lru_page)
+ * swap_lock (in swap_duplicate, swap_info_get)
+ * mmlist_lock (in mmput, drain_mmlist and others)
+ * mapping->private_lock (in __set_page_dirty_buffers)
+ * inode_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty)
+ * sb_lock (within inode_lock in fs/fs-writeback.c)
+ * mapping->tree_lock (widely used, in set_page_dirty,
+ * in arch-dependent flush_dcache_mmap_lock,
+ * within inode_lock in __sync_single_inode)
*/
#include <linux/mm.h>