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author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2005-10-29 21:16:41 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-10-30 00:40:42 -0400 |
commit | b8072f099b7829a6ff3eba618e1d079a81f753f8 (patch) | |
tree | 80bf801b68ecf5f29a61f0f4fd5976b4daa91c6a /include | |
parent | f412ac08c9861b4791af0145934c22f1458686da (diff) |
[PATCH] mm: update comments to pte lock
Updated several references to page_table_lock in common code comments.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mempolicy.h | 3 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h index ff28c8b31f58..7dca30a26c53 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | |||
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ | |||
8 | * - update the page tables | 8 | * - update the page tables |
9 | * - inform the TLB about the new one | 9 | * - inform the TLB about the new one |
10 | * | 10 | * |
11 | * We hold the mm semaphore for reading and vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock. | 11 | * We hold the mm semaphore for reading, and the pte lock. |
12 | * | 12 | * |
13 | * Note: the old pte is known to not be writable, so we don't need to | 13 | * Note: the old pte is known to not be writable, so we don't need to |
14 | * worry about dirty bits etc getting lost. | 14 | * worry about dirty bits etc getting lost. |
diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h index 38e60a099399..7af8cb836e78 100644 --- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h +++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h | |||
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; | |||
47 | * Locking policy for interlave: | 47 | * Locking policy for interlave: |
48 | * In process context there is no locking because only the process accesses | 48 | * In process context there is no locking because only the process accesses |
49 | * its own state. All vma manipulation is somewhat protected by a down_read on | 49 | * its own state. All vma manipulation is somewhat protected by a down_read on |
50 | * mmap_sem. For allocating in the interleave policy the page_table_lock | 50 | * mmap_sem. |
51 | * must be also aquired to protect il_next. | ||
52 | * | 51 | * |
53 | * Freeing policy: | 52 | * Freeing policy: |
54 | * When policy is MPOL_BIND v.zonelist is kmalloc'ed and must be kfree'd. | 53 | * When policy is MPOL_BIND v.zonelist is kmalloc'ed and must be kfree'd. |