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author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2011-05-24 20:12:06 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 11:39:18 -0400 |
commit | 3d48ae45e72390ddf8cc5256ac32ed6f7a19cbea (patch) | |
tree | 1f46db3a8424090dd8e0b58991fa5acc1a73e680 /Documentation/vm | |
parent | 97a894136f29802da19a15541de3c019e1ca147e (diff) |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/locking | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/locking b/Documentation/vm/locking index 25fadb448760..f61228bd6395 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/locking +++ b/Documentation/vm/locking | |||
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ in some cases it is not really needed. Eg, vm_start is modified by | |||
66 | expand_stack(), it is hard to come up with a destructive scenario without | 66 | expand_stack(), it is hard to come up with a destructive scenario without |
67 | having the vmlist protection in this case. | 67 | having the vmlist protection in this case. |
68 | 68 | ||
69 | The page_table_lock nests with the inode i_mmap_lock and the kmem cache | 69 | The page_table_lock nests with the inode i_mmap_mutex and the kmem cache |
70 | c_spinlock spinlocks. This is okay, since the kmem code asks for pages after | 70 | c_spinlock spinlocks. This is okay, since the kmem code asks for pages after |
71 | dropping c_spinlock. The page_table_lock also nests with pagecache_lock and | 71 | dropping c_spinlock. The page_table_lock also nests with pagecache_lock and |
72 | pagemap_lru_lock spinlocks, and no code asks for memory with these locks | 72 | pagemap_lru_lock spinlocks, and no code asks for memory with these locks |