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| author | Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> | 2023-03-27 19:45:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-04-06 04:43:00 +0200 |
| commit | 58ef47ef7db9dfc2730dc039498cc76130ea3c3d (patch) | |
| tree | d54aff16b7b756de9cac97a3eadcda5579fe9d4a /Documentation | |
| parent | afs: split afs_pagecache_valid() out of afs_validate() (diff) | |
| download | linux-58ef47ef7db9dfc2730dc039498cc76130ea3c3d.tar.xz linux-58ef47ef7db9dfc2730dc039498cc76130ea3c3d.zip | |
mm: hold the RCU read lock over calls to ->map_pages
Prevent filesystems from doing things which sleep in their map_pages
method. This is in preparation for a pagefault path protected only by
RCU.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230327174515.1811532-4-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst index 7de7a7272a5e..aa1a233b0fa8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ ops mmap_lock PageLocked(page) open: yes close: yes fault: yes can return with page locked -map_pages: yes +map_pages: read page_mkwrite: yes can return with page locked pfn_mkwrite: yes access: yes @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ locked. The VM will unlock the page. ->map_pages() is called when VM asks to map easy accessible pages. Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "start_pgoff" -till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must +till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with the RCU lock held and must not block. If it's not possible to reach a page without blocking, filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use do_set_pte() to setup page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with the page is passed in |