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authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>2014-12-12 16:54:24 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-13 12:42:45 -0800
commitc8c06efa8b552608493b7066c234cfa82c47fcea (patch)
tree7e206c669149766fb5a77a3ef85cdd4fac63be78 /kernel
parent83cde9e8ba95d180eaefefe834958fbf7008cf39 (diff)
downloadlinux-c8c06efa8b552608493b7066c234cfa82c47fcea.tar.gz
mm: convert i_mmap_mutex to rwsem
The i_mmap_mutex is a close cousin of the anon vma lock, both protecting
similar data, one for file backed pages and the other for anon memory.  To
this end, this lock can also be a rwsem.  In addition, there are some
important opportunities to share the lock when there are no tree
modifications.

This conversion is straightforward.  For now, all users take the write
lock.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: update fremap.c]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/uprobes.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index aac81bf9df09..1901dbfa7ce0 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ build_map_info(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t offset, bool is_register)
 
 		if (!prev && !more) {
 			/*
-			 * Needs GFP_NOWAIT to avoid i_mmap_mutex recursion through
+			 * Needs GFP_NOWAIT to avoid i_mmap_rwsem recursion through
 			 * reclaim. This is optimistic, no harm done if it fails.
 			 */
 			prev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct map_info),