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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2011-05-25 02:12:06 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-25 17:39:18 +0200
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parentmm: Remove i_mmap_lock lockbreak (diff)
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mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex
Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ in some cases it is not really needed. Eg, vm_start is modified by
expand_stack(), it is hard to come up with a destructive scenario without
having the vmlist protection in this case.
-The page_table_lock nests with the inode i_mmap_lock and the kmem cache
+The page_table_lock nests with the inode i_mmap_mutex and the kmem cache
c_spinlock spinlocks. This is okay, since the kmem code asks for pages after
dropping c_spinlock. The page_table_lock also nests with pagecache_lock and
pagemap_lru_lock spinlocks, and no code asks for memory with these locks