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Commit b8072f09 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] mm: update comments to pte lock 



Updated several references to page_table_lock in common code comments.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent f412ac08

include/asm-generic/pgtable.h

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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ 
 *  - update the page tables

 *  - inform the TLB about the new one

 *

 * We hold the mm semaphore for reading and vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock.

 * We hold the mm semaphore for reading, and the pte lock.

 *

 * Note: the old pte is known to not be writable, so we don't need to

 * worry about dirty bits etc getting lost.

include/linux/mempolicy.h

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@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; 
 * Locking policy for interlave:

 * In process context there is no locking because only the process accesses

 * its own state. All vma manipulation is somewhat protected by a down_read on

 * mmap_sem. For allocating in the interleave policy the page_table_lock

 * must be also aquired to protect il_next.

 * mmap_sem.

 *

 * Freeing policy:

 * When policy is MPOL_BIND v.zonelist is kmalloc'ed and must be kfree'd.

mm/filemap.c

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@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, 
 *

 *  ->mmap_sem

 *    ->i_mmap_lock

 *      ->page_table_lock	(various places, mainly in mmap.c)

 *      ->page_table_lock or pte_lock	(various, mainly in memory.c)

 *        ->mapping->tree_lock	(arch-dependent flush_dcache_mmap_lock)

 *

 *  ->mmap_sem
@@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, 
 *    ->anon_vma.lock		(vma_adjust)

 *

 *  ->anon_vma.lock

 *    ->page_table_lock		(anon_vma_prepare and various)

 *    ->page_table_lock or pte_lock	(anon_vma_prepare and various)

 *

 *  ->page_table_lock

 *  ->page_table_lock or pte_lock

 *    ->swap_lock		(try_to_unmap_one)

 *    ->private_lock		(try_to_unmap_one)

 *    ->tree_lock		(try_to_unmap_one)

mm/rmap.c

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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ 
 *   page->flags PG_locked (lock_page)

 *     mapping->i_mmap_lock

 *       anon_vma->lock

 *         mm->page_table_lock

 *         mm->page_table_lock or pte_lock

 *           zone->lru_lock (in mark_page_accessed)

 *           swap_lock (in swap_duplicate, swap_info_get)

 *             mmlist_lock (in mmput, drain_mmlist and others)
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ unsigned long page_address_in_vma(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma) 
/*

 * Check that @page is mapped at @address into @mm.

 *

 * On success returns with mapped pte and locked mm->page_table_lock.

 * On success returns with pte mapped and locked.

 */

pte_t *page_check_address(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,

			  unsigned long address, spinlock_t **ptlp)
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ int page_referenced(struct page *page, int is_locked, int ignore_token) 
 * @vma:	the vm area in which the mapping is added

 * @address:	the user virtual address mapped

 *

 * The caller needs to hold the mm->page_table_lock.

 * The caller needs to hold the pte lock.

 */

void page_add_anon_rmap(struct page *page,

	struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ void page_add_anon_rmap(struct page *page, 
 * page_add_file_rmap - add pte mapping to a file page

 * @page: the page to add the mapping to

 *

 * The caller needs to hold the mm->page_table_lock.

 * The caller needs to hold the pte lock.

 */

void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *page)

{
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *page) 
 * page_remove_rmap - take down pte mapping from a page

 * @page: page to remove mapping from

 *

 * Caller needs to hold the mm->page_table_lock.

 * The caller needs to hold the pte lock.

 */

void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)

{

mm/swap_state.c

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@@ -259,8 +259,7 @@ static inline void free_swap_cache(struct page *page) 


/* 

 * Perform a free_page(), also freeing any swap cache associated with

 * this page if it is the last user of the page. Can not do a lock_page,

 * as we are holding the page_table_lock spinlock.

 * this page if it is the last user of the page.

 */

void free_page_and_swap_cache(struct page *page)

{