[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 2 of 3] mm_take_all_locks
Andrea Arcangeli
andrea at qumranet.com
Thu Jun 5 09:44:21 PDT 2008
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:15:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Just a small comment fix.
>
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > + /*
> > + * AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS can't change from under us because
> > + * we hold the global_mm_spinlock.
>
> There's no global_mm_spinlock, you mean the 'mm_all_locks_mutex'.
>
> (There was at least one other case where you had that comment issue).
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at qumranet.com>
Indeed, I meant mm_all_locks_mutex, this will fix it, or if you prefer
a resubmit of the 2/3 let me know. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at qumranet.com>
---
diff -r 082f312bc682 mm/mmap.c
--- a/mm/mmap.c Thu Jun 05 17:30:17 2008 +0200
+++ b/mm/mmap.c Thu Jun 05 18:40:23 2008 +0200
@@ -2263,7 +2263,7 @@ static void vm_lock_anon_vma(struct anon
if (!test_bit(0, (unsigned long *) &anon_vma->head.next)) {
/*
* The LSB of head.next can't change from under us
- * because we hold the global_mm_spinlock.
+ * because we hold the mm_all_locks_mutex.
*/
spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock);
/*
@@ -2286,11 +2286,11 @@ static void vm_lock_mapping(struct addre
if (!test_bit(AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS, &mapping->flags)) {
/*
* AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS can't change from under us because
- * we hold the global_mm_spinlock.
+ * we hold the mm_all_locks_mutex.
*
* Operations on ->flags have to be atomic because
* even if AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS is stable thanks to the
- * global_mm_spinlock, there may be other cpus
+ * mm_all_locks_mutex, there may be other cpus
* changing other bitflags in parallel to us.
*/
if (test_and_set_bit(AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS, &mapping->flags))
@@ -2362,7 +2362,7 @@ static void vm_unlock_anon_vma(struct an
if (test_bit(0, (unsigned long *) &anon_vma->head.next)) {
/*
* The LSB of head.next can't change to 0 from under
- * us because we hold the global_mm_spinlock.
+ * us because we hold the mm_all_locks_mutex.
*
* We must however clear the bitflag before unlocking
* the vma so the users using the anon_vma->head will
@@ -2384,7 +2384,7 @@ static void vm_unlock_mapping(struct add
if (test_bit(AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS, &mapping->flags)) {
/*
* AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS can't change to 0 from under us
- * because we hold the global_mm_spinlock.
+ * because we hold the mm_all_locks_mutex.
*/
spin_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
if (!test_and_clear_bit(AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS,
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